Have you tried specifying "packages" in the config file of the test? Then no 
plugins.dat is necessary. 

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> On 2014/06/01, at 2:44, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> So Eclipse cannot find the plugin dat file then?
> 
> Adding the jar is not going to help if what I am doing is developing 
> plugins... :-(
> 
> I think there is some odd ball case where Maven copies the plugin dat file 
> some place and then you do a refresh in Eclipse to pick it up. I've not found 
> a reliable way to get this to work though.
> 
> This is frustrating...
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I see the NullPointerException also when I run the test in Eclipse.
>> 
>> If I revert back to the previous version of RandomAccessFileAppenderTest 
>> (before conversion to RuleChains) I don't see these NPEs.
>> 
>> (However in the previous version the test still fails: [0], [1] and [3] 
>> cannot find the resulting log file, [2] finds a different log file).
>> This last issue has to do with plugins not being found when running JUnit 
>> tests from Eclipse.
>> A simple hack to fix this is to temporarily add 
>> log4j-core-2.0-rc2-SNAPSHOT.jar to the (end of the) classpath.
>> This allows Eclipse to find the plugins and the tests pass.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> I said from eclipse: right click on the class, run as, junit test.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Remko Popma
>>> Date:05/31/2014 09:30 (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: Log4J Developers List
>>> Subject: Re: NPE in RandomAccessFileAppenderTests
>>> 
>>> I just updated and ran mvn eclipse package and I did not have any issues. 
>>> Build success.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'll take a look later today. 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2014/05/31, at 15:40, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I run RandomAccessFileAppenderTests from Eclipse, I get an NPE.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone else see this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Gary
>>>>> 
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