[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Exception launching the Eclipse Platform

[markus.neifer.nil@xxxxxxx (Markus Neifer)]

Hi John,
many thanks for your reply. I found the source of my problem today.
I have installed the '810030: Microsoft VM Security Update' just
recently. Unfortunately this had placed a 'java.exe' in my
'C:\WINNT\system32' directory. In my %PATH%, this directory is
searched first for executables (*before* it searches the
'%JAVA_HOME%\bin' directory). Well, i don't know what 'eclipse.exe'
does, but i assume it was trying to launch Eclipse with this ancient
'java.exe' from Microsoft. Guess what, it doesn't work... :-)

Thanks again for your reply.

Have a nice day!

Markus

John Arthorne wrote:

> So it was working fine previously, and after shutdown it failed to 
> restart?  By any chance did you change JVM or install anything relating 
> to xerces between Eclipse sessions?  If your JRE has a xerces 
> implementation that is not compatible with the one in Eclipse, you will 
> have problems.  Check your JRE's "ext" directory for xerces JARs.  See:

> http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/134#badXerces