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Startup problem on Win2000 (newbie) [message #91964]

Fri, 11 July 2003 13:41

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bali1a.freemail.hu

Hello,

I just download the eclipse 2.1.1. I have unpack it in a directory and try
to start eclipse.exe.
But I become an error message:

JVM terminated. Exit code=3
c:\winnt\system32\javaw.exe
-cp e:\eclipse\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os win32
-ws win32
-arch x86
-showsplash E:\eclipse\eclipse\eclipse.exe -showsplash 600

If I start it with "eclipse -vm d:\jdev\jdk\bin\javaw" then it begins to
run, I see the eclipse project logo and then an other error message
"Problems during startup...See log"

What can I do?

Thanks!

The log file:

!SESSION
------------------------------------------------------------ ----------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Jul 11, 2003 12:17:43.857
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException:
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.Object java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java.lang.Object,
java.lang.Object[])
native code
java.lang.Object
org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(java.lang.String[])
Main.java:291
java.lang.Object org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(java.lang.String[])
Main.java:747
void org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(java.lang.String[])
Main.java:583

Re: Startup problem on Win2000 (newbie) [message #92195 is a reply to message #91964]

Fri, 11 July 2003 17:03

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.NOSPAM.us.ibm.com

When you are using eclipse.exe it looks like you are using the standard
Windows java, which is real downlevel (I think still 1.2.2? ). That is
why when you supplied the -vm it used the one you supplied.

One possibility is to install a good jvm to be the default jvm for the
system. How you do that depends on the jvm installer, I'm not sure how
to force it to do this. Anyone out there know?

The other way is to make sure the current directory when you start
eclipse.exe is the directory where eclipse.exe exists. That way
eclipse.exe will use the jre that comes with eclipse (because it can now
find this jre because jre is in the current directory).

Rich

Re: Startup problem on Win2000 (newbie) [message #92602 is a reply to message #92195]

Sat, 12 July 2003 14:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: chaves-nospam.inf.ufsc.nospam.br

The safest way to run Eclipse is to specify explicitly which VM to use. In
a system with multiple Java based products, it prevents installing another
Java-based tool (which may install its own JRE, which may not be good for
running Eclipse).

I would download and extract a full 1.3+ JRE/JDK (not one that comes
embeddeded in another product) in my file system, and configure a shortcut
or script to run Eclipse explicitly specifying that JRE/JDK VM to be used
(as you know, with the -vm parameter).

> The other way is to make sure the current directory when you start
> eclipse.exe is the directory where eclipse.exe exists. That way
> eclipse.exe will use the jre that comes with eclipse (because it can now
> find this jre because jre is in the current directory).

You can install a JRE inside Eclipse directory and Eclipse will use it (if
-vm is not specified), but Eclipse does not come with any JRE.

More information on running Eclipse:

http://dev.eclipse.org/help21/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.p latform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm

HTH,

Rafael

Re: Startup problem on Win2000 (newbie) [message #217742 is a reply to message #92195]

Mon, 29 March 2004 17:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: user.domain.invalid

Richard, what line is it that is used in DOS to activate my copy of
Eclipse?? It has the -vm switch in it!

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Richard L. Kulp wrote:

> When you are using eclipse.exe it looks like you are using the standard
> Windows java, which is real downlevel (I think still 1.2.2? ). That is
> why when you supplied the -vm it used the one you supplied.
>
> One possibility is to install a good jvm to be the default jvm for the
> system. How you do that depends on the jvm installer, I'm not sure how
> to force it to do this. Anyone out there know?
>
> The other way is to make sure the current directory when you start
> eclipse.exe is the directory where eclipse.exe exists. That way
> eclipse.exe will use the jre that comes with eclipse (because it can now
> find this jre because jre is in the current directory).
>
> Rich
>

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