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We are using Eclipse Luna with our plugin that modifies Project Explorer. Eclipse is running fine on Java 7. After we switched to Java 8 (rebuilt plugin in Java 8 and run Eclipse under Java 8), we see the NPE on selection change in Project Explorer: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.internal_new_GC(Control.java:2118) at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.GC.cocoa_new(GC.java:207) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.sendMeasureItem(Tree.java:2593) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.cellSize(Tree.java:288) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5517) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSendSuper_stret(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.expansionFrameWithFrame_inView(Widget.java:798) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Tree.expansionFrameWithFrame_inView(Tree.java:1271) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:5896) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSend_bool(Native Method) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.NSRunLoop.runMode(NSRunLoop.java:42) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sleep(Display.java:4680) at org.eclipse.ui.application.WorkbenchAdvisor.eventLoopIdle(WorkbenchAdvisor.java:368) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEWorkbenchAdvisor.eventLoopIdle(IDEWorkbenchAdvisor.java:918) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.eventLoopIdle(Workbench.java:498) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1155) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1032) at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:148) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:636) at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:579) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:135) at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:382) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:236) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:648) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:603) at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1465)
Luna is a very old release (2014), the Eclipse Platform only supports the latest/next release (2022-03). This Bug has was already fixed for the Mars release (2015). Either backport the fix yourself, or upgrade to a newer Eclipse version. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 434393 ***