68701 – Eclipse startup failure on Mac OS X: update Xerces?

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Bug 68701 - Eclipse startup failure on Mac OS X: update Xerces?

Summary: Eclipse startup failure on Mac OS X: update Xerces?

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40472

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Resources (show other bugs)
Version:	2.1.3
Hardware:	Macintosh Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox
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Reported:	2004-06-26 23:20 EDT by tnp
Modified:	2004-06-28 14:36 EDT (History)
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Description tnp

2004-06-26 23:20:03 EDT

On mac OS 10.2.8, Eclipse fails to launch.  The problem seems to be fixed by
replacing xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar in plugins/org.apache.xerces with
current versions:

!SESSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Jun 26, 2004 15:46:10.174
!MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform:
!STACK
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: java.lang.ClassCastException:
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(SAXParser.java:95)
        at
org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginParser.initializeParser(PluginParser.java:80)
        at
org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginParser.<clinit>(PluginParser.java:44)
        at
org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.RegistryLoader.processManifestFile(RegistryLoader.java:89)

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2004-06-28 14:36:52 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40472 ***