You'll need to be more specific about which version of Hadoop and Eclipse you're using. There are known issues building the plugin on Hadoop 0.20.1. I am in the process of providing a patch for this, in the interim, you can try using the plugin jar attached at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6360
Kind regards Steve Watt From: Raymond Jennings III <raymondj...@yahoo.com> To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Date: 11/23/2009 10:46 AM Subject: Error trying to build hadoop eclipse plugin I am running ant on windows from the src/contrib/eclipse-plugin directory Using jdk1.6.0_18: Anyone have any experience with this? Thank you. [ivy:retrieve] 0 artifacts copied, 2 already retrieved (0kB/0ms) No ivy:settings found for the default reference 'ivy.instance'. A default insta nce will be used DEPRECATED: 'ivy.conf.file' is deprecated, use 'ivy.settings.file' instead :: loading settings :: file = E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\ivy\ivysettings.xml compile: [echo] contrib: eclipse-plugin [javac] Compiling 45 source files to E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\build\contrib\eclipse-plugin\classes [javac] E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin\src\java\org\apache\hadoop\eclipse\launch\HadoopApplicationLaunchShortcut.java:35: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : class JavaApplicationLaunchShortcut [javac] location: package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher [javac] import org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.JavaApplicationLaunchShortcut; [javac] ^ [javac] E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin\src\java\org\apache\hadoop\eclipse\launch\HadoopApplicationLaunchShortcut.java:49: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol: class JavaApplicationLaunchShortcut [javac] JavaApplicationLaunchShortcut { [javac] ^ [javac] E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin\src\java\org\apache\hadoop\eclipse\launch\HadoopApplicationLaunchShortcut.java:66: cannot find symbol [javac] symbol : variable super [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.eclipse.launch.HadoopApplicationLa unchShortcut [javac] super.findLaunchConfiguration(type, configType); [javac] ^ [javac] E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin\src\java\org\apache\hadoop\eclipse\launch\HadoopApplicationLaunchShortcut.java:60: method does not override or implement a method from a supertype [javac] @Override [javac] ^ [javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details. [javac] 4 errors BUILD FAILED E:\hadoop\hadoop-0.20.1\src\contrib\eclipse-plugin\build.xml:63: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.