org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Unable to load graphics library [GDI+ is required] (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError)

This is the SWTException that you might see on the W2K machine. This cause for this exception is absence of GDI+ library (gdiplus.dll) on Windows 2000. On WindowsXP and Vista they come by default and its taken care of.

Don’t be dis-hearted by this, you can download from Microsoft site and every thing should work fine. For those who want to have some additional information…

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#nographicslibrary
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2357&context=SS6RTP&dc=DB520&uid=swg21260149&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8〈=en&rss=ct2357lotus
http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=36127
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.gmf/msg03973.html

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