Aha, figured out a work around. 1) Import... External plugins and fragments the defaults import everything, we can limit that to what we want.
2) In the run configuration, change from: Launch with all workspace and enabled external plugins to Choose plugins and fragments... and then disable the plugins imported to the workspace. The second step was necessary here to get up and running although it seems like it should work so I'll have to play with it some more. Note that as I follow the instructions, I end up with an eclipse IDE without *any* plugins for development. Thank you anyhow for your suggestion. cheers, adrian _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
