[Bug 1670838] New: Running the an Eclipse PDE example throws a null pointer exception.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670838

Bug ID: 1670838
           Summary: Running the an Eclipse PDE example throws a null
                    pointer exception.
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 29
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
         Component: eclipse
          Severity: high
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora

Description of problem:

Using the Eclipse through the dnf channel is not working as expected:

I am attempting to build a simple hello world application by creating a new
eclipse plugin project and selecting the template of "View contribution using
4.x API".

Building and running that example as it is with no modification does not work
as I am getting the following error message:

!MESSAGE Possbible annotation mismatch: method "public void
hello.parts.SampleView.createPartControl(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite)"
annotated with "javax.annotation-api:1.2.0:javax.annotation.PostConstruct" but
was looking for "javax.annotation.PostConstruct [via bootstrap classloader]"

Looking at the jar files within the eclipse /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins I noticed
that there are jar files pointing to glassfish:

/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/javax.annotation-api_1.2.0.jar ->
/usr/share/java/glassfish-annotation-api.jar
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/javax.el-api_3.0.0.jar ->
/usr/share/java/glassfish-el-api.jar
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/javax.inject_1.0.0.v20091030.jar ->
/usr/share/java/atinject.jar
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/javax.servlet-api_3.1.0.jar ->
/usr/share/java/glassfish-servlet-api.jar
/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/javax.servlet.jsp_2.3.2.b01.jar ->
/usr/share/java/glassfish-jsp-api/javax.servlet.jsp-api.jar

specifically the javax.annotation-api_1.2.0.jar is different from the other
Eclipse downloaded from https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages

It comes as javax.annotation_1.2.0.v201602091430.jar which is differen
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open eclipse
2. Create a new eclipse plugin project using the template of View contribution
using 4.x API".
3. Run the example

Actual results:
A view is created which throws a null pointer exception.

Expected results:
A view which displays some text.

Additional info:

[Bug 1670838] Running the an Eclipse PDE example throws a null pointer exception.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670838

--- Comment #1 from Ben Cotton  ---
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[Bug 1670838] Running the an Eclipse PDE example throws a null pointer exception.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1670838

Ben Cotton  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |EOL
        Last Closed|                            |2019-11-27 20:51:52

--- Comment #2 from Ben Cotton  ---
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