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ClassNotFoundException wierdness [message #646582]

Wed, 29 December 2010 00:07

Theodore Omtzigt

Messages: 3
Registered: December 2010

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My Eclipse environment suddenly has stopped functioning. When I am creating a new program and add a class that hasn't been imported the IDE is finding the class and allows me to write the code, dereference methods, all without highlighting any issues. However, when running the code the ClassNotFoundException renders the program useless.

The problem after that is the error doesn't go away after I import the class. So I have code that appears in the editor to be functional but when trying to run the code is completely dead.

I do not know if this is related, but I spent the last week trying to use a maven2 project and installed m2eclipse and added the maven2 projects to my workspace. Then today I moved back to my old non-maven2 project when this wierdness caught me. I removed both the projects and the plugin but the wierd IDE behavior still persists.

How do you debug such an issue?

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Re: ClassNotFoundException wierdness [message #646652 is a reply to message #646582]

Wed, 29 December 2010 16:30

Theodore Omtzigt

Messages: 3
Registered: December 2010

Junior Member

I reinstalled Eclipse and this issue appears to have gone away.

In the Maven update, I had to change from a JRE to a JDK. The instructions that I used may have been misguided as I think that the System boot build path got confused.

So two questions then remain:
- how do you properly point Eclipse to use a JDK
- how do you debug the boot build path, or more general, what are the different stages that eclipse goes through to fire up, and what build paths need to be valid when.

P.S. I hate recipes, I rather have understanding

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Re: ClassNotFoundException wierdness [message #646663 is a reply to message #646652]

Wed, 29 December 2010 17:45

Russell Bateman

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Provo, Utah, USA

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On 2010.12.29 9:30, Theodore Omtzigt wrote:
> I reinstalled Eclipse and this issue appears to have gone away.
> In the Maven update, I had to change from a JRE to a JDK. The
> instructions that I used may have been misguided as I think that the
> System boot build path got confused.
>
> So two questions then remain:
> - how do you properly point Eclipse to use a JDK
> - how do you debug the boot build path, or more general, what are the
> different stages that eclipse goes through to fire up, and what build
> paths need to be valid when.
>
> P.S. I hate recipes, I rather have understanding

Answer to first question: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

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Re: ClassNotFoundException wierdness [message #646674 is a reply to message #646663]

Wed, 29 December 2010 19:14

Theodore Omtzigt

Messages: 3
Registered: December 2010

Junior Member

Brilliant, that page was nice and clean.

Unfortunately, it didn't show up when I searched for it and instead was lead astray with bad advice. The original Eclipse installation is behaving normally again.

Maybe the second question wasn't a good question as the link page indicated that there is only one stage: the JVM that eclipse runs in. Get that right and all is well.

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