[Fwd: eclipse-3.6.2 failed on amd64 9]

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/04/2012 21:51 Greg Lewis said the following:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:27:22PM -0500, Jimmy wrote:
>> I'm seeing the same error (NullPointerException in com.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.getDefault(TimeZone.java:679)) while
>> RUNNING eclipse-3.6.2 on 9.0-STABLE i386.
>>
>> It appears that the latest update to openjdk6 has somehow messed up the timezone info...
> 
> I'm looking into this.  The weird thing I've seen so far is that a
> test class that calls the same API works without any problems.  Not sure
> why this only happens to Eclipse.

Just in case.  I am also running into the problem with eclipse, icu, time zone
and the latest openjdk6 from ports.
More specifically:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile.getZoneIDs(ZoneInfoFile.java:747)
        at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.getAvailableIDs(ZoneInfo.java:535)
        at java.util.TimeZone.getAvailableIDs(TimeZone.java:516)
        at com.ibm.icu.impl.JavaTimeZone.<clinit>(JavaTimeZone.java:37)

And, as you say, a test program that directly calls
java.util.TimeZone.getAvailableIDs also succeeds here.

A workaround from this forum thread works for me:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=488654

A wild guess: maybe the issue is caused by the custom class loading in
eclipse/osgi and static variables in sun.util.calendar.* classes are not
properly initialized before the classes are used.  The guess is based purely on
<clinit> for com.ibm.icu.impl.JavaTimeZone.
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Andriy Gapon