Project: JDT
Bug 22164 Referencing JavaPlugin class in earlyStartup causes invalid thread access [misc]
Reported: 2002-08-05 09:42:09 | Status: resolved fixed

It is possible that this is not a bug, either because it's known & not supported to because it's internal API, but it was rather unexpected, bizzare behavor. I have a plugin which depends on JDT-UI. This plugin also happens to implement IStartup. If at anypoint, I load the org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.JavaPlugin class from earlyStartup(), the Plugin loader attempts to load JDT-UI, which then promptly bombs out with invalid thread access and fails to load. This only happens if no JDT UI perspectives are loaded (in other words, on a fresh workspace). I will attach a simple plugin that demonstrates the problem. Just run it on a fresh workspace. The line it fails on seems to be "manager.registerAdapters(new JavaElementAdapterFactory(), IJavaElement.class);" in the startup() method. Thanks, Andrew

Files changed in fix:
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/viewsupport/JavaElementImageProvider.java