Java 11 and E(fx)clipse JavaFX plugin on Eclipse 4.9: An error has occurred - see the log file

Question

I can't get my Eclipse 2018-09 (4.9) running with Java 11 and E(fx)clipse JavaFX plugin.

I run the typical Help -> Install new software procedure for E(fx)clipse, but after restart, Eclipse fully crashes: I can't even open Eclipse anymore for a new workspace!

When I try to run Eclipse, I get a dialog:

"An error has occurred. See the log file C:\\workspace\\.metadata\\.log"

I've put a copy of that log file on my Github .

Well, I could run a hello world JavaFX application using this manual library setup, but I'd really like to get E(fx)clipse running in order to get the Eclipse menu options and functionality. So how to solve that? Thanks.

Answer 1

In Eclipse e(fx)clipse the support for Java 11 has just been implemented and is just available since version 3.4.1 , but according to your log you have version 3.3.0.201809010600.

See Eclipse bug 539739