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STS 4.6.0 shows empty the `Preferences` window [MacOS]

See original GitHub issue

Hello STS team!

I have:

El Capitan 10.11.6
Amazon Corretto Java 11

openjdk 11.0.6 2020-01-14 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Corretto-11.0.6.10.1 (build 11.0.6+10-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Corretto-11.0.6.10.1 (build 11.0.6+10-LTS, mixed mode)

I just migrated from STS 4.5.1 (this version and previous such as 4.5.0 had worked in peace with all software listed above) to 4.6.0.

When I open Preferences

Always show nothing

First time throughout these years I got this behaviour in Mac, BTW I got the expected Preferences window in Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 (both with Corretto Java 11 too), the problem is only in Mac

For these three OS I did do a clean or new installation process, for Mac 3 times and sadly the same behaviour. Even if in Mac I import a .epf file this strange behaviour happens

Is it a bug?

Thanks

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:33 (11 by maintainers)

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martinlippertcommented, Mar 31, 2020

I always go to the About dialog, press Installation Details and then Configuration. That reveals all the system properties, where some point to the exact JDK/JRE that is used to run the IDE. I don’t trust the JRE preferences very much, since that easily finds all the various JDKs installed somewhere on your machine.

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martinlippertcommented, Apr 6, 2020

As a summary, I double checked all this on my old MacBook Pro (running macOS El Capitan 10.11.6) (I tested Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.6.0):

runs fine on AdoptOpenJDK-8
runs fine on a patched AdoptOpenJDK-11 (patch: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559482#c11)
runs fine on a patched AdoptOpenJDK-14 (patch: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=559482#c11)

Running Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.6.0 on top of Eclipse 4.15 causes the issue with the preference dialog, described above (empty nodes tree).

Running Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse 4.6.0 on top of Eclipse 4.14 works fine (with all the mentioned AdoptOpenJDKs and with a working preference dialog).

In case you want to grab a distribution of STS4 on Eclipse 4.14 for macOS, here is the download URL:

https://download.springsource.com/release/STS4/4.6.0.RELEASE/dist/e4.14/spring-tool-suite-4-4.6.0.RELEASE-e4.14.0-macosx.cocoa.x86_64.dmg

If you want to use one of the latest CI builds on top of Eclipse 4.14, you can find them here:

https://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/STS4/nightly-distributions.html

Hope this helps all folks running into this issue.