[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Eclipse on OS X

[Jerry Wilcox <Jerry.Wilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <b7lj6t$jnc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ringo De Smet
<ridesmet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you put a number of these libraries in the JDK lib/ext folder or
> classpath, please move them out of there for a minute, try to start
> Eclipse and see if it works now. If it works, post it here. You can then
> place all your XML libraries back to their original place. We just need
> to know if this is the cause of the conflict. If not, we can cross one
> of the lines on our list of possible causes. :-)
> 

WhooHoo:

in lib/ext, I had 14 different libraries. took them all out, and now
Eclipse launches. But wait, there's more:

A few binary trials reveal that it is specifically the one library:
xercesImpl.jar, part of the Xerces parser, that causes the problems. If
I take out that one .jar file, Eclipse launches fine.

Now, if I have Eclipse launching fine and put that .jar back in, the
very FIRST time I try to launch Eclipse, I get the following alert

"Unable to load workbench state. Workbench UI layout will be reset"

When I click "OK", the application "quits unexpectedly."

Now, if I try and launch it again, I'm back to the state of just
bouncing in the dock a few times and quitting with no messages.

Remove xercesImpl.jar again and launch -- all is well.

I also went to apache.org and downloaded the latest Xerces and replaced
the xercesImpl.jar library with the latest one. Same results.

Hope this is helpful.

Jerry