[news.eclipse.tools] New Eclipse User Needs Help

[robert benson <bulldog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I was try to go through the exercises in the 'Java Developer's Guide to
Eclipse and was doing fine until got to the debugging exercises.  I was
using the official 2.1 version for Windows 2000.

After failing to find the problem I downloaded the new official 2.1.1
version today and still get the same results when I try to debug any
program.

I am using Sun's j2re1.4.1_03.  Should I use j2sdk1.4.1_03 ?

Below is the message from the .log identifying the specific problem:   I
looked through all the Eclipse jar files and could not find any
StandardVMType class anywhere. Where is it located?

Thanks for any assistance given!

!MESSAGE Specified VM install not found: type
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType, name Detected
VM
!ENTRY org.eclipse.debug.ui 4 120 Jul 20, 2003 21:28:01.772
!MESSAGE Error logged from Debug UI:
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Specified VM install not found:
type org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType, name
Detected VM
 at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.abort(JavaRuntime.java:1072)
 at org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.abort(JavaRuntime.java:1058)
 at
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.computeVMInstall(JavaRuntime.java:1040)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.JRERuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(JRERuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.java:34)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.RuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(RuntimeClasspathEntryResolver.java:43)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.resolveRuntimeClasspathEntry(JavaRuntime.java:713)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.StandardSourcePathProvider.resolveClasspath(StandardSourcePathProvider.java:56)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JavaRuntime.resolveSourceLookupPath(JavaRuntime.java:619)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.launching.sourcelookup.JavaSourceLocator.initializeDefaults(JavaSourceLocator.java:385)

 at
org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.JavaUISourceLocator.initializeDefaults(JavaUISourceLocator.java:279)

 at
org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.initializeSourceLocator(LaunchConfiguration.java:183)

 at
org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:155)

 at
org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin.buildAndLaunch(DebugUIPlugin.java:676)

 at
org.eclipse.debug.ui.DebugUITools.buildAndLaunch(DebugUITools.java:538)
 at org.eclipse.debug.ui.DebugUITools$2.run(DebugUITools.java:487)
 at
org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:101)