Re: [platform-ui-dev] Failure in org.eclipse.ui.workbench

[Jan-Hendrik Diederich <Jan-Hendrik.Diederich@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,
that solved it.

Regards,
Jan


Boris Bokowski wrote:
> Can you please check out org.eclipse.ui from CVS as well? This should 
> fix the problem.
>
> Boris.
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 12:00 PM, Jan-Hendrik Diederich < 
> Jan-Hendrik.Diederich@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:Jan-Hendrik.Diederich@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I had today a lot of trouble with broken up workbenchs (damaged
>     workbench configurations). And had to create new ones.
>
>     But I think the folowing is a permanent bug. It is about
>     "org.eclipse.ui.services" extension points, I think they should have
>     been removed, according to this posting:
>
>     http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/dsdp-ercp-dev/msg00171.html !
>
>     But they are still in the code, and now they cause always null-pointer
>     exceptions (at least in RCP applications).
>
>     WorkbenchServiceRegistry#loadFromRegistry {
>       ...
>       IExtensionPoint ep = reg.getExtensionPoint(EXT_ID_SERVICES);
>       IConfigurationElement[] serviceFactories = ep
>                                    .getConfigurationElements();
>       ...
>     "ep" is always used without a check, and it's always "null".


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