Solve AWT problem using JBossTools Release 2.0 on Mac OS X 1

[sisepago]

Problem:

After creating a seam project, open the ".xhtml" made problem:
Unhandled event loop exception
Can't start the AWT because Java was started on the first thread. Make sure StartOnFirstThread is not specified in your application's Info.plist or on the command line

Solution:

edit your eclipse.ini

####### eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOs/eclipse.ini ####################

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
-vmargs
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts

remove the -XstartOnFirstThread and set this -Djava.awt.headless=true

####### eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOs/eclipse.ini ####################
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
-vmargs
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-Djava.awt.headless=true
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts

and then restart your eclipse

[maxandersen]

any official eclipse bug for this one?

looks weird that disabling awt should make it work...

But thanks for the tip though!

[maxandersen]

btw. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1376 is our jira for it.

[norman.richards]

Thanks. I've done this on mine, and it does work. However, there are a number of quirks like the screen not getting refreshed in visual/source mode.