I had the following Eclipse details on Windows 10:
Eclipse IDE For Enterprise Java and Web Developers (includes incubating components):
Version 2023-03 (4.27.0)
Build id 20230309-1520
It had been working fine for years. All of a sudden, Maven Build is not working properly. When I run Maven Build, I can tell it is running but no output is showing in the console, and I can only see the following:
SLF4J: No SLF4J providers were found.
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See https://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders for further details.
SLF4J: Class path contains SLF4J bindings targeting slf4j-api versions 1.7.x or earlier.
SLF4J: Ignoring binding found at [jar:file:/C:/path-to-folder/Eclipse_23_03_64bit_1/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.m2e.maven.runtime_3.8.701.20230209-1606/jars/maven-slf4j-provider-3.8.7.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See https://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#ignoredBindings for an explanation.
[debug] execute contextualize
[debug] execute contextualize
[debug] execute contextualize
[debug] execute contextualize
I did some research and thought the solution was to update the Maven Plugin. I ran the update, and it took about an hour to update. I received several errors during this process, and when it was done, I could not start Eclipse. First, I got this when I tried to start it the first time:
An error has occurred. See the log file path-to-folder\eclipse\jee-2021-06\eclipse\configuration\1705625850636.log.
click here to open the log file
Then I got this error:
The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.
I found several articles about fixing eclipse.ini but nothing worked.
Please help me to troubleshoot this error.
Update 1:
Added the log file:
click here to open the log file
I did the additional analysis, and it seems that the files under eclipse/configuration were not updated correctly during the Maven Plugin Update process probably due to corporate proxy issues as I saw several errors in the Eclipse Errors Log View indicating items not found, URL cannot be reached, or files cannot be downloaded. I cannot open Eclipse now and I don't know where Eclipse logs are stored.
Update 2:
In downloaded and installed Eclipse IDE for Java Enterprise and Web Application Development 2023-12. It was successful, and I noticed some of the configurations from the previous install were restored and I think this is because Oomph Dereference Recorder tool. Also, I noticed that Maven was updating, so looks like maven is pre-installed with this Eclipse. I Proceeded to installing SVN and got this error in the as Subversive SVN Integration for the M2E Project could not be installed, so it was left out:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Subversive SVN Integration for the M2E Project (Optional) 4.8.0.v20220904-1901 (org.eclipse.team.svn.m2e.feature.group 4.8.0.v20220904-1901)
Missing requirement: Subversive SVN Integration for the M2E Project (Optional) 4.8.0.v20220904-1901 (org.eclipse.team.svn.m2e.feature.group 4.8.0.v20220904-1901) requires 'org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu; org.eclipse.m2e.scm [1.0.0,2.0.0)' but it could not be found
Update 3:
I did a detailed analysis and found the following errors in the workspace logs:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui 4 0 2024-01-20 17:08:44.188
!MESSAGE Unable to read repository at https://osspit.org/eclipse/subversive-connectors/content.xml.
!STACK 1
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core.ProvisionException: Unable to read repository at https://osspit.org/eclipse/subversive-connectors/content.xml.
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Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Which is clearly a corporate proxy issue. I extracted the corporate certificate from the browser and added it to an existing cacerts file as trust store, configured eclipse to point to this cacerts file from eclipse.ini, and all problems installing plugins were resolved. I am still checking the status now.
Any help would be appreciated. I am now proceeding with troubleshooting.