This morning I fired up Eclipse to work on my Java project, and bam! Got hit with this “rebel error” nonsense. My whole workspace turned into a red mess of angry squiggly lines. Not cool. Time to fix this crap once and for all.
First Attempt: The Usual Suspects
Started with the obvious stuff like always. Clicked Project > Clean and told it to clean all projects. Watched that progress bar crawl… aaand nothing changed. Still broken. Next tried right-click project > Maven > Update Project. Checked that “Force Update” box like a desperate man. Still no dice.
Deep Diving Into Eclipse Guts
Opened up the .metadata folder in my workspace like digging through engine parts. Deleted the .plugins folder – felt scary but did it anyway. Restarted Eclipse. Nope, still throwing rebel tantrums. Then nuked the whole .metadata directory. Big mistake! Had to reimport all projects from scratch. Waste of damn time.
The Validation Hail Mary
Went hunting through Eclipse menus like a raccoon in trash cans. Found Window > Preferences > Validation. Saw a million checkboxes. Disabled every single validator by unchecking them all. Restarted Eclipse like rolling dice… and holy crap! The rebel errors disappeared! But now my XML files had no warnings at all. Not ideal.
Here’s what actually worked without breaking everything else:
- Toggled validators off/on one by one until rebel errors stopped
- Disabled just the JBoss Tools Validation specifically
- Created new workspace and imported projects fresh (last resort)
Final Solution That Stuck
Ended up finding this magic sequence:
- Close Eclipse completely
- Delete file in workspace/.metadata
- Launch Eclipse with -clean option (important!)
- Re-enable validators except JBoss crap
Workspace finally loaded clean today. Took me all afternoon but now my Eclipse ain’t rebelling anymore. Moral of the story? Always try that “-clean” launch trick first before wasting hours like I did.
