Stack Overflows in the Eclipse JSP Editor

Question

When editing JSPs in Eclipse, I periodically get stack overflows. Once I get one, each time I click a character I get a pop-up telling me there was another stack overflow. This continues until I close the JSP and re-open it, at which time it's fine for a while.

org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.internal.parser.JSPSourceParser: 
    input could not be parsed correctly at position 1
java.lang.StackOverflowError

Has anyone else seen this issue, do you know the cause, and is there a way to fix it?

Answer 1

Which version of JSP (WTP) are you using? (what version of eclipse are you using as well?)

Is the error message one like this:

org.eclipse.jst.jsp.core.internal.parser.JSPSourceParser: input could not be parsed correctly at position 1
java.lang.StackOverflowError

(as reported in this thread?)

The bug 265380 reports a fix for WTP 3.0.5 and as such would impact an eclipse Ganymede SR2 (i.e. 3.4.2).
WTP3.1 has also this bug fixed, and is for eclipse Galileo (3.5)