Android ADT Eclipse plugin, parseSDKContent failed

Question

I've just set up my first Android development environment consisting of

• Eclipse 3.5
• Mac OSX 10.5
• Android SDK for x86 macs
• ADT Eclipse plugin 0.9.6

I've set set $PATH to my SDK/tools directory (which shouldn't matter if I only use Eclipse right?) and started Eclipse, but when I try to set the path to the SDK in Eclipse, i get the error "parseSdkContent failed". The stack trace of from the thrown exception is

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
at javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory.newInstance(SchemaFactory.java:181)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDevicesXsd.getValidator(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.parseLayoutDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.loadDefaultLayoutDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.LayoutDeviceManager.loadDefaultAndUserDevices(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.Sdk.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.internal.sdk.Sdk.loadSdk(Unknown Source)
at com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AdtPlugin$13.run(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

I can't see that I've missed anything in the setup process, according to the instructions it should basically just work out of the box. Any ideas as to why this might fail?

Answer 1

A quick glance at http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/validation/SchemaFactory.html suggests that something is wrong with the JDK 1.6 setup.

Setting the -vm flag in eclipse to the original 1.5 did not help, but after removing all traces of the apparently misconfigured 1.6 everything worked like a charm.