[KARAF-2109] When Karaf installation directory contains a space, EIK does not work.

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: eik-0.9.0
• Component/s: eik
• Labels: NullPointerException eclipse eik

Environment

Win 7 professional SP1
eclipse-rcp-indigo-SR2-win32-x86_64.zip
jdk1.6.0_37

• Assignee: Filippo Balicchia
• Reporter: wayang
• Created: 14/Jan/13 09:11
• Updated: 13/Sep/18 16:17
• Resolved: 28/May/13 09:09

Description

When I create a new Karaf Installation, and selet a karaf installation directory as path, Eclispe come out an NullPointerException error, as following.
<----------------------------------------------------------------
!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Launching New_configuration".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.karaf.eik.ui.KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.augmentClasspathWithEquinox(KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.java:323)
at org.apache.karaf.eik.ui.KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.getClasspath(KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.java:190)
at org.eclipse.pde.launching.AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration.launch(AbstractPDELaunchConfiguration.java:70)
at org.apache.karaf.eik.ui.KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.launch(KarafLaunchConfigurationDelegate.java:246)
at org.eclipse.pde.launching.OSGiLaunchConfigurationDelegate.launch(OSGiLaunchConfigurationDelegate.java:47)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:854)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:703)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin.buildAndLaunch(DebugUIPlugin.java:937)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin$8.run(DebugUIPlugin.java:1141)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
...
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My OS is win 7. And maybe everyone using win32 will encount this problem. The users of EIK can install karaf in another path to solve thie problem.