Since a couple of months (I think after updating Eclipse's checkstyle plugin), I'm getting the following error when performing a checkstyle with the jspwiki-checkstyle.xml : (checkstyle with the default sun_checks.xml works fine)
net.sf.eclipsecs.core.util.CheckstylePluginException: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate TabCharacter at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.util.CheckstylePluginException.rethrow(CheckstylePluginException.java:66) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.util.CheckstylePluginException.rethrow(CheckstylePluginException.java:77) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.builder.Auditor.runAudit(Auditor.java:164) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.builder.CheckstyleBuilder.handleBuildSelection(CheckstyleBuilder.java:286) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.jobs.RunCheckstyleOnFilesJob.runInWorkspace(RunCheckstyleOnFilesJob.java:96) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55) Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate TabCharacter at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:177) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:207) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.builder.CheckerFactory.createCheckerInternal(CheckerFactory.java:309) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.builder.CheckerFactory.createChecker(CheckerFactory.java:143) at net.sf.eclipsecs.core.builder.Auditor.runAudit(Auditor.java:140) ... 4 more Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable to instantiate TabCharacter at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(PackageObjectFactory.java:156) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.TreeWalker.setupChild(TreeWalker.java:159) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:207) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:156) ... 8 more Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable to instantiate TabCharacterCheck at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.doMakeObject(PackageObjectFactory.java:99) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(PackageObjectFactory.java:153) ... 11 more Are there any checkstyle experts on the list that have an elegant solution for this ? thanks, Harry
