SoapUI 5.3.0 Mac hangs on any use after installation

Question

SoapUI 5.3.0 (latest open source version) Mac hangs on clean-install on MacOS 10.12.3 - with all presets suggested by the installer.

I tried rebooting & installing a

Answer 1

I found Phil Hudson's text when I had the same problem, worked for me with SoapUI 5.3.0: http://www.phil-hudson.com/fixing-soap-ui-5-2-1-hanging-on-osx-el-capitan/

From Phil's text (note that he wrote it for SoapUI 5.2.1):

Basically, SOAP UI is using a bundled JDK for 1.7, but I use JDK 1.8 - so we need to symlink it. Run the following:

cd /Applications/SoapUI-5.2.1.app/Contents/PlugIns/jre.bundle/Contents/Home
mv jre jre.old
ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home/jre jre

Check that the symlink to your JDK is correct, versions might differ so it's worth checking. If you've got it wrong, SOAPUI will throw a startup error and tell you the JDK is missing.

Restart SOAPUI and all will hopefully be good!