NullPointerException when starting with eclipse Launcher

[DaGeRe]

When I start an arbitrary main or an JUnit-Test with the VisualVM launcher, I always get an NullPointerException:

An internal error occurred during: "Launching BenchmarkTest".
java.lang.NullPointerException

Unfortunately, that is the only output that I receive. Is there a workaround for this?

I've set in Preferences -> Run/Debug -> Launching -> VisualVM Configuration VisualVM executable to /usr/bin/visualvm and JDK Home to /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64, and I am using Ubuntu 16.10.

[bagage]

Facing the same issue; @DaGeRe did you manage to make it work?

[buzden]

I'm facing the same problem.

The local reason I see is that VisualVMHelper does not manage with null at the line 105.

This is solved in this pull request: #37.

[thurka]

Fixed in Eclipse Launcher 1.1.2 for VisualVM 1.4