[chris8185]

I created a simple struts application as per your struts tutorial. When I exited myEclipse and then reentered the ide I could no longer see the outline view for the stuts-config.xml file (the outline view was blank).
When I checked the error log for eclipse I found the following stacktrace.

System Setup ——————————-
Operating System and version: Windows XP Home Edition
Eclipse version: 3.0.0
Eclipse build id:
Fresh Eclipse install (y/n): Y
If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager?
Other installed external plugins: N
Number of plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory that begin with org.eclipse.pde.*: 8
MyEclipse version: 3.7.2
Eclipse JDK version: j2sdk 1.4.2.04
Application Server JDK version: tomcat 5.0.24
Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file?

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 May 20, 2004 23:01:09.255
!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 May 20, 2004 23:01:09.275
!MESSAGE java.lang.NullPointerException
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow$9.shellActivated(WorkbenchWindow.java:1911)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:163)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:769)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:793)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:774)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Decorations.WM_ACTIVATE(Decorations.java:1463)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.WM_ACTIVATE(Shell.java:1325)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:2943)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Decorations.windowProc(Decorations.java:1439)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:3146)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DefWindowProcW(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DefWindowProc(OS.java:1445)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell.callWindowProc(Shell.java:397)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.windowProc(Control.java:3024)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Decorations.windowProc(Decorations.java:1439)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.windowProc(Display.java:3146)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessageW(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.OS.DispatchMessage(OS.java:1450)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2254)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1562)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1536)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:257)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:139)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:90)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:277)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:239)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:117)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:267)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:692)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:676)-
– Message Body ——————————-

[Riyad Kalla]

Chris,
Its hard to debug what is going on with the given info because the stack trace you provided is a purely Eclipse exception.

Have you tried closing all your open files, closing your project, then restart Eclipse, and opening your project and opening the struts-config file again?

[Riyad Kalla]

chris8185,
Were you able to get up and running?

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