Ok After digging more, I de-installed all eclipse packages then I re-installed everything.. without the google GWiT stuff which is what I am trying to play with.
With the following packages installed: bigscreen% pkg info | grep eclipse eclipse-3.7.1_4 An open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular eclipse-PropertiesEditor-4.8.2_3 Properties editor for eclipse eclipse-ShellEd-1.0.2a_3 ShellEd is a superb shell script editor for Eclipse eclipse-cdt-6.0.2_1 C/C++ plugin for Eclipse IDE eclipse-datatools-1.11 Data Tools Platform for the Eclipse IDE eclipse-emf-2.7.2 Eclipse Modeling Framework eclipse-examples-3.0_6 Examples for the Eclipse IDE eclipse-findbugs-1.3.2.20080222_4 An Eclipse plug-in that provides FindBugs support eclipse-gef-3.7.2 Graphical Editing Framework for the Eclipse IDE eclipse-gef-examples-3.0_6 Graphical Editing Framework for the Eclipse IDE (examples) eclipse-jad-3.3.0_4 Jad Java decompiler plugin for the Eclipse IDE eclipse-pmd-2.0.5.v3_6 Scan Java source code and look for potential problems eclipse-pydev-2.8.1 Eclipse plugin for Python and Jython development eclipse-sysdeo-tomcat-3.1.0_4 Sysdeo Tomcat Launcher plugin for Eclipse eclipse-webtools-3.3.2 Webtools for eclipse When I just do any help selection in eclipse I get: bigscreen% eclipse 2013-10-05 06:44:54.131:WARN::ERROR: Error for /help/index.jsp java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/tomcat/PeriodicEventListener at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.defineClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:188) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.defineClass(ClasspathManager.java:601) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.findClassImpl(ClasspathManager.java:567) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.findLocalClassImpl(ClasspathManager.java:490) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.findLocalClass_LockClassLoader(ClasspathManager.java:478) at org.eclipse.osgi.baseadaptor.loader.ClasspathManager.findLocalClass(ClasspathManager.java:458) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.findLocalClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:216) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findLocalClass(BundleLoader.java:400) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.SingleSourcePackage.loadClass(SingleSourcePackage.java:35) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:464) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:429) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:417) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) at org.eclipse.equinox.jsp.jasper.JspServlet.<init>(JspServlet.java:101) at org.eclipse.equinox.jsp.jasper.registry.JSPFactory.create(JSPFactory.java:56) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:262) at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElementHandle.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElementHandle.java:55) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.registry.internal.ServletManager$ServletWrapper.initializeDelegate(ServletManager.java:194) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.registry.internal.ServletManager$ServletWrapper.service(ServletManager.java:179) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ServletRegistration.service(ServletRegistration.java:61) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.processAlias(ProxyServlet.java:126) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.service(ProxyServlet.java:60) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722) at org.eclipse.equinox.http.jetty.internal.HttpServerManager$InternalHttpServiceServlet.service(HttpServerManager.java:317) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:390) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:924) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:409) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582) So what am I missing? clues (I have none) would be most helpful. Or is eclipse just hopelessly broken in FreeBSD and I need to use a mac.. I am definitely willing to bet it something I forgot to do too.. (at least I hope its not broken in FreeBSD :-() Thanks R On Oct 5, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Randall Stewart wrote: > > Howdy: > > I am are real newbie to eclipse, and I seem to be having difficulties getting > the basics to work. > > I have installed it from the latest ports. Note I am running head. > > Now the thing is I can bring up eclipse and it seems to work. But if I bring > up > "help" I get a java exception ;-( > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.eclipse.help.internal.server.JettyHelpServer.checkBundle(JettyHelpServer.java:124) > … > > Any thoughts on what silly thing I did wrong would be appreciated :-) > > Thanks > R > ------------------------------ > Randall Stewart > 803-317-4952 (cell) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-eclipse > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-eclipse-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > ------------------------------ Randall Stewart 803-317-4952 (cell) _______________________________________________ freebsd-eclipse@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-eclipse To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-eclipse-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"