[Alejandro Rico]

I have just Installed 3.8GA without Problems,

but when I was browsing the changes to the prefernece dialog; selecting the Prefernece Page:
Workbench –> Editors –> Annotations

I get an Error: An error has occurred when creating this preference page.

Im attaching the Error Log:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 4 1 ago 17, 2004 19:25:55.839
!MESSAGE Plug-in “org.eclipse.ui.editors” was unable to instantiate class “org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsPreferencePage”.
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.text.CollationElementIterator.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.text.RuleBasedCollator.getCollationElementIterator(Unknown Source)
at java.text.RuleBasedCollator.compare(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsConfigurationBlock$9.compare(AnnotationsConfigurationBlock.java:401)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Arrays.sort(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Collections.sort(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsConfigurationBlock.createAnnotationTypeListModel(AnnotationsConfigurationBlock.java:405)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsConfigurationBlock.<init>(AnnotationsConfigurationBlock.java:83)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsPreferencePage.createConfigurationBlock(AnnotationsPreferencePage.java:52)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AbstractConfigurationBlockPreferencePage.<init>(AbstractConfigurationBlockPreferencePage.java:44)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.AnnotationsPreferencePage.<init>(AnnotationsPreferencePage.java:24)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:141)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:124)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.registry.ConfigurationElement.createExecutableExtension(ConfigurationElement.java:113)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPlugin.createExtension(WorkbenchPlugin.java:203)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WorkbenchPreferenceNode.createPage(WorkbenchPreferenceNode.java:54)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.showPage(PreferenceDialog.java:1068)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$9.selectionChanged(PreferenceDialog.java:582)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer$3.run(StructuredViewer.java:470)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:615)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:747)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.firePostSelectionChanged(StructuredViewer.java:468)
at org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredViewer.setSelection(StructuredViewer.java:1143)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.selectSavedItem(PreferenceDialog.java:877)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$3.run(PreferenceDialog.java:342)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.createContents(PreferenceDialog.java:338)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.create(Window.java:356)
at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog.create(Dialog.java:979)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run(OpenPreferencesAction.java:72)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:979)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:946)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:896)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$7.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:809)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:82)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:796)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:2772)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2431)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1435)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1406)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:263)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:144)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:102)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:335)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:273)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:129)
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:183)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:644)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:628)

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Saludos

Alex

[Riyad Kalla]

Alex,
Thank you for the report, this is a known bug we should get fixed in the service release by the end of this week.

[Riyad Kalla]

Moved to bugs

[Scott Anderson]

The issues discussed in this thread were addressed in MyEclipse 3.8.1

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