FB4 plugin does not work with Eclipse Cocoa versions (3.5 & 3.6)

[mig56]

I am trying to install Flash Builder 4 plugin in Eclipse Cocoa 3.6 or 3.5 (32 bit) and they both install but I am not able to launch the Flash perspective. If I install Eclipse 3.5 Carbon version the Flash perspective works. Both 3.5 and 3.6 have the same error messages in the Eclipse log file. So from what I can see, the Flash plugin is not support in the Cocoa versions. Is this correct? Will the 64bit version be supported in the near future?

My machine setting:

Mac OS 10.6.4

Java 1.6.0_20

Eclipse Log file:

BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86, WS=cocoa, NL=en_US

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.jobs 4 2 2010-09-07 10:44:23.748

!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during: "Creating Adobe Flash Player trust file...".

!STACK 0

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/adobe/flexbuilder/utils/osnative/NativeControl

at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.internal.PlayerTrustStore.getUserFlashPlayerTrustFolder(PlayerTrustStore.java:198)

at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.internal.PlayerTrustStore.<init>(PlayerTrustStore.java:81)

at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.internal.PlayerTrustStore.getInstance(PlayerTrustStore.java:71)

at com.adobe.flexbuilder.project.internal.FlexProjectCore$4.run(FlexProjectCore.java:388)

at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.adobe.flexbuilder.utils.osnative.NativeControl

at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:494)

at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:410)

at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:398)

at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:105)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)

... 5 more

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2010-09-07 10:44:26.028

!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception

!STACK 0

org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: handle)

at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3884)

at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(SWT.java:3799)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:137)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3405)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3102)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2405)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2369)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2221)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:500)

at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:493)

at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:113)

at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:194)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:368)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:559)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:514)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1311)

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: handle

at com.adobe.flexbuilder.ui.UIPlugin$1.run(UIPlugin.java:120)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:134)

... 22 more

[C__Agruss__Adobe_ · Accepted solution]

Hi,

FB4 Plug-in is only supported with Carbon versions of Eclipse, and the installer should have warned you when you tried installing into a Cocoa version.

We have Fb working with Cocoa in the next version of Fb (under development now), but FB4 requires Carbon.

-Chris

[laurent-d]

Is FB4 supposed to work with Eclipse Carbone 3.6?

The installation works fine but when I start Eclipse I get a "Configuration error + code 6" for FB4.

Thanks

[C__Agruss__Adobe_]

Yes, FB4 Plug-in is supported on 3.6 Carbon, such as the SDK (Classic) package that's conveniently available in both Carbon and Cocoa flavors. I just ran a plug-in installation to the Classic 3.6.0 Carbon distro, and was able to launch it with FB4 perspectives successfully.

I just tried it with the newer 3.6.1 Carbon SDK too, and it worked fine there as well.

A couple of questions:

When you launch the copy of Eclipse bundled with FB 4 Plug-in, does it start up successfully?

Regarding the error you're getting with Helios, have you tried running these steps already?

- reboot your Mac

- navigate to your installation folder under /Adobe Flash Builder 4 Plug-in/install.support/AdobeFlashBuilderPluginSTIWrapperMac/

- run Install.app from that location, to make sure all the required runtimes are installed successfully.

Then re-launch eclipse 3.6 Carbon, and see if that makes the difference.

Failing that, you may need to work through the error matrix here:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/834/cpsid_83481.html

Let me know how it goes.

-Chris

[laurent-d]

Chris,

Thanks for the quick response!

I followed your step to re-installed FB4 and Eclipse starts successfully now.

The first time I had clicked on the installation file right after downloading FB4.

--Laurent

[metric152]

After weeks fighting with eclipse and flash builder plug-in I find this post and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help.

[calvinvette]

Is the Cocoa-capable version of FB available for early access? Or soon to be released?

[C__Agruss__Adobe_]

Watch for a Preview Release (Public Beta) this fall. I can't mention the date yet, but if you monitor Adobe Labs you won't miss it:

http://labs.adobe.com/

-Chris