Error with parsing Android sdk content and initializing java tooling in eclipse

Question

Every time I open Eclipse, I get the following error messages:

Android SDK Content Loader: parseSdkContent failed java.lang.NullPointerException

Initializing Jav

Answer 1

slott's answer helped a lot. Deleting the .metadata or reinstalling eclipse didn't though. The trick was to isolate the project causing the problem, delete its .settings folder and .project file and reimport it.