Description Pascal Rapicault 2004-06-17 13:57:08 EDT

In the bug #67369 I mentionned the existence of a NoClassDefFoundError and here
it is. I don't have clear steps to reproduce it but here is how I proceed.
I start eclipse, wait for the UI to come up, wait a second or two. Shutdown.
Of course this is not really precise but I guess that with setting a few
breakpoints this is easily reproduceable.

In the console, I get the following error which is the result of a thread still
running and loading classes while the framework already stopped (almost). 
Here is an explanation of why this exception is being thrown:
- The app exit, 
- EclipseStarter calls the shutdown mechanism that stops all the plugins
(following the prereq graph), 
- The framework shuts down itself, causing the classloaders to be "closed". This
means that no more classes can be loaded and any attempt to load classes results
in NoClassDefFoundErrors.

It seems to me that in this case, the indexer thread (I believe this is it) has
not been killed properly and is still running while the fwk is being shutdown.


The application "org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench" returned with code: 0.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/index/EntryResult
    at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.index.DiskIndex.addQueryResult(DiskIndex.java:119)
    at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.index.DiskIndex.addQueryResults(DiskIndex.java:156)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.index.Index.query(Index.java:128)
    at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.search.matching.TypeDeclarationPattern.queryIn(TypeDeclarationPattern.java:189)
    at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.search.matching.InternalSearchPattern.findIndexMatches(InternalSearchPattern.java:51)
    at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.search.matching.MatchLocator.findIndexMatches(MatchLocator.java:266)