[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-22810?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Rob Stryker commented on JBIDE-22810: ------------------------------------- So on Windows, this occurred for me 100% of the time (once I followed the exact instructions). After a lot of inspection, I've discovered the following: 1) org.jboss.tools.openshift.core has activator OpenShiftCoreActivator 2) org.jboss.tools.openshift.express.core has activator ExpressCoreActivator 3) o.j.t.openshift.ui extends the common navigator via ext. pt via the OpenShiftExplorerContentProvider class. a) OpenShiftExplorerContentProvider creates / uses the OpenShiftUIModel 1) OpenShiftUIModel (in o.j.t.o.ui) calls registry.getAll(Connection.class), which loads the o.j.t.o.core activator and initializes it 4) o.j.t.openshift.express.ui extends the common navigator via ext. pt via the ExpressExplorerContentProvider class. a) ExpressExplorerContentProvider calls registry.getAll(ExpressConnection.class) which loads the o.j.t.o.express.core activator and initializes it Basically, the driver of the plugin loaders is the UI extensions to the navigator. The express ui will indirectly cause the express core to be loaded. The v3 ui will cause the v3 core to be loaded. There is no error with the plugins not being loaded, and no error with the content providers returning empty arrays due to some race condition. Even when the view is empty, the content providers **ARE** returning the proper results. So, why is the view empty? I can't 100% figure it out, but I suspect it's something in how the content providers are returning their results. They're unable to discover the proper treepath to inject it into the tree, or something. Either way, I can't figure it out at the moment. It could be something as simple as ConnectionWrapper requiring a .equals() or .hashCode(). I remember such problems in CNF before. Despite all this, a 1 line fix to force a refresh while the view is being created fixes this situation 100% of the time in my environment. PR is attached. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.2.3#72005)