Eclipse internal error while initializing Java tooling

Question

I am getting errors from Eclipse Indigo running on Windows 7 Ultimate. For each of the following items:

Android SDK content loader
Building workspace
Initial         


        

Answer 1

check the Eclipse log (the intelligently named ".log" file in your workspace .metadata folder) and check for the complete stacktrace. In my case it was caused at method "org.eclipse.m2e.jdt.internal.MavenClasspathVariableInitializer.initialize(MavenClasspathVariableInitializer.java:30)" which lead to a never fixed "race condition during startup" bug. I would really recommend dumping Eclipse in favor of a more serious IDE; like IntelliJ or Netbeans. Using Eclipse means that you will invest 40-50% of your time trying to work around this kind of bugs, instead of being productive.