Eclipse 2.1 crashes with Designer ver. 2.0.1 [HELP!!]

[raheel]

Hello, I download and unzip Designer 2.0.1 for Eclipse 2.1 at my windows 2K box. Before adding this plugin, eclipse was working fine but now when I start it, it displays a small dialog box complaining that I must consult to .log file for details (workspace/.metadata/.log). I got the file and it was a long strack trace (so many exceptions), I am pasting here just top two of them:

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!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.runtime".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/parsers/ParserConfigurationException
   at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.LocalMetaArea.readOldWorkspace(LocalMetaArea.java:256)
   at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.open(Workspace.java:1521)
   at org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin.startup(ResourcesPlugin.java:268)
   at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor$1.run(PluginDescriptor.java:736)
   at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run(InternalPlatform.java:1006)
   at .......

!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 4 2 Aug 10, 2004 18:26:57.843
!MESSAGE Plug-in "org.eclipse.ui" was unable to instantiate class "org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench".
!STACK 0
org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.DelegatingLoaderException: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Problems encountered starting up plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.resources".
   at ........


Please help me as I am in the crucial need of this designer.
Plz HELP !!!!
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[Eric Clayberg]

What exact version of Eclipse 2.1 are you using?

I very much doubt that this problem has anything to do with Designer. It appears that you have a major problem with your Eclipse configuration. The exception you posted indicates that the
ParserConfigurationException class cannot be found. That class is a standard part of Eclipse 2.1 that is found in the xmlParserAPIs.jar file within the org.apache.xerces plugin. Do you see that jar file and plugin in your Eclipse installation?

[raheel]

Hello Eric,

thanks, below is the version of eclipse that i have retrieved from readme_eclipse.html file:


Release 2.1.2
October 31, 2003


Also, I search the plugin folder and found "xmlParserAPIs.jar" file inside folder F:\eclipse\plugins\org.apache.xerces_4.0.13. So, both things are here, I still guess that this is something wrong with Designer (may be with this version of eclipse!!). When I removed this plugin from the plugins folder, eclipse runs fine without any exceptions trace in .log file. Any thoughts ??

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