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I have Eclipse Juno installed on my new MacBook Air Yosemite. I have imported a project I was working on in my old Mac and I need to add a reference to a new Jar. Trouble is, nothing happens when I click on the Add External JARs!

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Eclipse is up-to-date. It appears it's just broken and may have something to do with Yosemite - I created a new project and cannot add any external JARs in that project either.

There is a work-around by putting the jars directly into the project's lib folder. But, this creates duplicate file system objects.

Please advise

This is the entry in Eclipse error log:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2015-02-11 11:41:21.303
!MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.panel_shouldShowFilename(FileDialog.java:348)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.dialogProc(Display.java:5410)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.OS.objc_msgSend(Native Method)
    at org.eclipse.swt.internal.cocoa.NSSavePanel.setAccessoryView(NSSavePanel.java:46)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.open(FileDialog.java:254)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.ui.wizards.BuildPathDialogAccess.chooseExternalJAREntries(BuildPathDialogAccess.java:472)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.buildpaths.LibrariesWorkbookPage.openExtJarFileDialog(LibrariesWorkbookPage.java:794)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.buildpaths.LibrariesWorkbookPage.libaryPageCustomButtonPressed(LibrariesWorkbookPage.java:257)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.buildpaths.LibrariesWorkbookPage.access$0(LibrariesWorkbookPage.java:250)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.buildpaths.LibrariesWorkbookPage$LibrariesAdapter.customButtonPressed(LibrariesWorkbookPage.java:199)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.dialogfields.TreeListDialogField.buttonPressed(TreeListDialogField.java:171)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.dialogfields.TreeListDialogField.doButtonSelected(TreeListDialogField.java:400)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.dialogfields.TreeListDialogField.access$2(TreeListDialogField.java:396)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.dialogfields.TreeListDialogField$2.widgetSelected(TreeListDialogField.java:361)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent(TypedListener.java:248)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4188)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1467)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1490)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1475)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1279)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4031)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3658)
    at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:832)
    at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:808)
    at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.PropertyDialogAction.run(PropertyDialogAction.java:160)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:519)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:595)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:511)
    at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:420)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.sendEvent(Display.java:4188)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1467)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1490)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1475)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.notifyListeners(Widget.java:1279)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4031)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3658)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1151)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1032)
    at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:148)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:636)
    at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:579)
    at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150)
    at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:135)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:134)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:104)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:380)
    at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:235)
    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:648)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:603)
    at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1465)
Roy Hinkley
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I had the exact same issue. Looks like a weird bug somewhere. Restarting Eclipse worked for me.

Zhiyong
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  • That fixes the issue once per session for me too. Access it again and the issue re-emerges - forcing another restart of Eclipse to regain the feature. More than a little inconvenient. – Roy Hinkley Feb 16 '15 at 18:57
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Updating Eclipse fixes the issue.

Dimitriye98
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I am experiencing the same issue with Juno on Yosemite. See the following eclipse bug, which might be cause of the issue. You might have to switch to latest Eclipse, or at least to the version which contains the fix.

  • I think that's a different issue, the stack trace exceptions start on different lines (348 and 360). That's doesn't mean they are related, but I don't think they are the exact same. – Roy Hinkley May 22 '15 at 12:42