Why does RAD 8 consistently hang on startup? - eclipse

I am experiencing a problem where Rational Application Developer 8 consistently hangs indefinitely on startup. I've only been able to find a partial solution: I can get RAD to start up if I delete the <n>.tree file in the workspace's .metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources.root directory. Once started however, all projects must be re-imported.
What I can't seem to solve is the underlying issue -- the issue recurs after every shutdown of RAD, and I'm having to delete the .tree file and re-import the projects each time I start the app. Shutting down RAD normally does not prevent the problem from recurring; neither does removing all projects and cycling RAD with no projects (problems start again immediately the first time RAD is shut down with projects still imported). I've even created a new workspace from scratch, but it didn't help either.
I'm at a loss. If anyone has experienced this, any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I am currently experiencing the same problem with an older version of RAD and haven't found a working solution yet so far, but you might get some pointers from here:
How do I prevent Eclipse from hanging on startup?
At any rate, you can check the ./metadata/.log file in your workspace for useful information about where exactly it hangs.

There are many background process starts when Eclipse or RAD starts. You can disable the background process which is not required. These can be found under Window->Preferences->General->Startup and Shutdown.

Delete Temp files under /tmp folder and restart RAD...
Worked for me...

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sql developer hangs on startup - what can I do?

At present I cannot run it (SQL Developer 4.1) because it hangs on "Restoring Editors" while starting. I suppose I've done it by exiting it before by killing sql developer process because it was hanged on fetching objects to Schema Browser so long...
Maybe I would clean some temporary files but can't find any.
Any ideas?
Deleting files from c:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\SQL History
and c:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\System...
Really helped me to resolve the connection issues
Basing on this thread https://community.oracle.com/thread/2564842 I've created own solution.
Extract installation of current version SQL Developer (4.1.0.17.29)
At "c:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\"
I've changed directory name system4.1.0.17.29 to system4.1.0.17.28.
After running newly extracted SQL Developer (4.1.0.17.29) I was prompted to let copy configuration from version 4.1.0.17.28 to 4.1.0.17.29 ;)
Everything works great now. I suppose that running the same (broken) installation after decreasing version could also help.
Remove folders c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\system4.1.3.20.78\system_cache*. SQLDeveloper will recreate it after launching.
Just execute sqldeveloper as administrator. It works fine!
In my case the problem was because of windows compatibility issue. So I've selected my windows version and it's stop from randomly crash after startup
Our setup:
Windows 10
Sqldeveloper Versions <= 20.4.0
We observed this problem as well. Even worse while working over a VPN connection. I followed a couple of hints with more or less no effect.
To move
C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer
to a local directory by adding this line
AddVMOption -Dide.user.dir=c:\temp\sqldev-conf
in the \sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper.conf file gave us some improvement, but the “IndexPreferencesTask” still got stuck several times on startup.
After some more hours on unsuccessful research, we moved back from JDK 11 to JDK 8.
This solved 99% of the problem. The “IndexPreferencesTask” still hangs on startup but for less than a second.
Sounds to me like a problem with JDK 11.
In my case when i changed Tools --> Preferences --> Environment -> Look and Feel to Windows it is solved.
Delete the History files from C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\sqldeveloper
Restart the PC
In my case, the solution was kind of weird. After battling to resolve this for 2 days, no luck. Suddenly, on my mac, I searched for sql developer, not sqldeveloper. It popped up a sqldeveloper application (not sure how that is different from what I have been trying to open ), clicked it and boom, it opened. My guess is that there is a copy of that app on my system that I should have been opening rather than trying to open the reinstalled app. Note: I reinstalled the app after it started misbehaving though.
Operating System: Windows 10
Oracle Sqldeveloper Ver: 17.4.0
The problem has been noticed sometime when any network security
patch was installed on your machine. Looks like the patch impacts
your cached data under your user profile folder.
As above Lakh, rtbf and others answered. Removing below folders
will resolve the issue.
C:\Users\<userId>\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\SqlHistory
C:\Users\<userId>\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\system17.4.0.355.2349
If any one find more approriate reason please feel free to
disagree with my answer.

Netbeans only slow when copying and pasting?

My Netbeans has been insanely fast for over 2 years, until this morning. Something strange, however, is now happening. Every time i press "copy and paste" ... so CTRL-C, it goes slow. This is what I see:
So, the moment I press CTRL-C, that shows in the bottom, my entire machines goes into super slow mode, and then 5 seconds later it stops.
I've considered maybe there's a keylogger on my machine, but can't find anything. And it's only slow when I copy and paste from Netbeans, nothing else. Maybe Netbeans is sending data out some other way?
Any ideas why Netbeans would just go slow like this?
UPDATE
I only have one project open
I've disabled the git and subversion plugins
I am working on a Laravel project
It's slow when I copy from a VIEW or when I copy from a CONTROLLER (I know css files often go a bit slow because of Parsing, so I figured mentioning this is probably worthwhile)
I followed the advice at the end of this article: here and uninstalled "BlueStacks". Problem solved.
UPDATE
Just in case the article gets deleted, here is the advice the user gives on that page:
I meet the same problem. When I copy a word in the IDE, the IDE does not response until 2 or 3 seconds. I did not confront this problem until few days ago. I try to use the latest netbeans and the latest jdk, but that does not work. Then I find someone said http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5078787 is the problem. And the problem is somewhat about the COM in windows. So I try to install the netbeans to another Win7 PC, and the problem is gone. In that case, I guess the problem is not the netbeans, but some other application in windows. Later I uninstall some of the application I just installed few days ago. And the IDE works right now. The applications I uninstalled is "imc studio" "imc license manager" and "blueStacks" an android simulator. I guess these application may have influence to the COM of Win7. Hope my solution will help to this bug.
You can also just stop the BlueStacks Agent process from Task Manager while you're using NetBeans.

Eclipse randomly stopped starting

I've been using Eclipse a lot recently, and haven't had any problems with it. Last night, I was working on it perfectly fine. However, this morning, whenever I load it up, the program stops working half way the loading splash screen (before the actual workspace opens up). The information says "Loading Workbench" and just stays there forever. When I click on it multiple times, I get a message saying that Java(TM) Platform SE binary is not responding.
Google hasn't been a ton of help, and seems to just give a lot of responses about Minecraft. I'm slightly confused as to where I need to start looking, since nothing had changed since I successfully used it last. No updates to Java or Eclipse or anything else. Thanks for the help, and let me know if you need any more information!
I was actually able to fix it by just renaming my WorkSpace to WorkSpace1. Apparently it got corrupted somehow, and with the rename Eclipse was able to recreate a new one. Here's the link that helped me out:
http://spacetech.dk/eclipse-failed-java-was-started-but-returned-exit-code-805306369.html
Two things to check when you have problems with Eclipse:
First, always check the .log file, located in the .metadata directory (<workspace path>/.metadata/.log) of your workspace (not the Eclipse installation directory). Keep in mind that this is a hidden file under Linux or Mac OS. It usually contains the exception that is causing the crash. I usually delete any existing .log file before firing up Eclipse, just to make sure I am looking at the relevant log entries (the file will be recreated at startup).
If #1 does not help, you can try deleting the .metadata directory altogether. It will be recreated on startup (this is basically what you did by changing the workspace). In my experience with Eclipse, I noticed that some files can get corrupted inside .metadata, making Eclipse act weirdly. Keep in mind that this directory contains customizations you made in Eclipse and its plugins for the workspace and you might need to make them again.
Hope this helps.
Eclipse tends to be weird sometimes. If you move stuff around outside of the directories it was initially installed in, it usually won't load. I don't know if that's what you did, but your best bet is to back up your workspace, and reinstall eclipse. I'm sure that will do the trick.
Try a reinstall if possible or else, check the eclipse error log, which would be present at'/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/log'.
This will help you knowing the problem.

Eclipse hangs while debugging

I searched lot about this topics but can't find a proper solution.
I am using eclipse 3.6 Helios version with operating system fedora15. In my application I am using GWT2.4 for front end development.
Now while I work with debug mode and want to debug at some point at the same time eclipse hangs for 3-4 mins.It resumes after and again start to debug process.
I am using this eclipse from last 3 years with windows but not faced this issue.In fedora I am using it from last 4 months and this problems stated to occur from last one month.
I am not getting what is the issues with eclipse.
Please help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Is this something that happens with different projects/code, or is it the same code that causes freezes? I've had issues where threads have started in the background and caused problems.
You say "(...) hangs for 3-4 mins.It resumes after and again start to debug process.", what do you mean? Does it continue to debug and move to the next line, or is there a crash and it restarts?
How long has it been since you changed workspace? I've found this, rather than the Eclipse installation, to be an issue over time. Create a new workspace folder, export all your projects and preferences and start fresh.
You are using GWT 2.4 and I think you might be working with UI.xml too... There is a tag in each ui.xml at the top like
<!DOCTYPE ui:UiBinder SYSTEM "http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent">
Which means eclipse is going to get that xhtml.ent file each time and there is a issue in GWT eclipse plugin have a look to below link
http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5265
There is one comment which says
For me, removing
SYSTEM "http://dl.google.com/gwt/DTD/xhtml.ent"
and saving the document,
solves the problem..
maybe it is needed for something, so better you copy that locally somewhere, and link that.
Try it out and let me know.
I had experienced the exact same problem on a less-powerful notebook I had to use.
Try one of the following
Download the latest Eclipse version (It needs, just as helios, a lot of RAM and CPU because it's based on a new "architekture", in contrast to, for instance, galileo)
Make sure you are using the latest JDK and JRE
Download Eclipse Galileo, which does require pretty less resources and goes still very very fine with most projects!
It sounds like you are experiencing the features of the latest Eclipse arch. In the latest versions of Eclipse I have noticed that the more plugins and add-ons you have installed, the slower the environment runs. There are a lot of similar posts regarding performance on the new platform
I have removed all but the plugins I am using and never install anything not needed into the Eclipse environment.
I "may" have experience this. Not sure. Suddenly started working again. I was getting a hang every time I would try to debug an app, in the part of the code (inside GWT) that creates a "table" element. Could be that there is something that just takes a while and you just have to "wait it out" the when it happens. Go get a cup of coffee, type thing. anyway I HAD stepped deep into the GWT code, plenty so I'm convinced it IS a GWT issue of some kind.
I was thinking it was some infinite recursion possibly in the logging system (like logger code accidentally trying to log itself, and going into loop?). Also there's a 50/50 chance that it was simply clicking on 'run' instead of 'debug' made it start working again. So at least try that if you have problems. My gut instinct and 30yrs programming under my belt tells me it's logger related. I can rule out "slow computers" because I never had this happen until I got a new machien which is Dell XPS, Core i7, 8 GB ram, and massive disk. So I wouldn't blame hardware, or Eclipse bloat.

Eclipse getting too slow - workspace recreation helped

My Eclipse was getting slower and slower over time. Tips I found on the Internet did not help.
What I did is completely deleted my workspace, created new one and reimported all my projects into the new workspace and this really made the difference.
So my question is whether it's possible to perform this workspace clean-up without deleting and recreating workspace...
Maybe there is some cache in workspace which is getting big? Any ideas?
Thank you!
Eclipse keeps track of all changes in local history. That might introduce slowdown over time.
Local history is located at .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history.
Not sure about newer versions of eclipse, but in 3.1 settings in
Preferences->General->Workspace->Local history
did not work for me. I had it set by default to 7 days but files were kept for 4 years. And I guess other people here had the same issue.
For me it helped to remove history files manually from
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history.
I use RAD 7.5 (which is based off of Eclipse 3.4). I found several of my projects had millions of history files, all older than 7 days, and mostly the same dummy MANIFEST.MF file (39 bytes).
I discovered this when I tried to delete an old project with Windows Explorer. After 12 hours, Windows Explorer reported that it had recycled 3.5 million files, and was still working.
I found the only way to remove the workspace was to open a Command Window, CD to
<project>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.history
then type
DEL *.* /s/q
Even this took the better part of an hour.
Try running eclipse from command prompt with
eclipse.exe -clean
More http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-10280.html
Sometimes due to Physical Memory issue it cant build the workspace.
So To remove Memory issues update #
eclipse.ini
file as below
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 1024m
I just solve the problem by deleting all stuffs inside eclipse's directory OPTReplica. after that, re-stat eclipse, for me it helps.
Eclipse is programmed as a filebomb, and it causes a large variety of problem, evben on modern robust filesystem. Problem can goes from large waste of diskspace for nothing to preventing your OS to boot if your workspace is on your OS partition. Eclipse is programmed as a filebomb.
The cleanup mechanism in eclipse doesn't work, so the only viable option is to frequently cleanup your workspace by hand at regular interval, or to add your cleanup code to a sh file that does it before launching eclipse.
An other option will be to introduce the eclipse developpers to the fabulous world of databases that produce faster to run and easier to write code. Sadly a rhumor says that they will shot on sight everyone that pronounce the words "sqlite" or "jdbc", and will sacrifice virgind every sunday to the all-mighty-god-of-filebombs.