Excel strange behaviour - maybe windows - Preview errors

[Anonymous]

when i try to open an Excel 2003 (.xls)
when i try to create a metadata for this file in Windows, i get the error below when using ANY encoding:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: itrack_reporting/shadowfileinputtodelimitedoutput_0_1/ShadowFileInputToDelimitedOutput
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: itrack_reporting.shadowfileinputtodelimitedoutput_0_1.ShadowFileInputToDelimitedOutput
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: itrack_reporting.shadowfileinputtodelimitedoutput_0_1.ShadowFileInputToDelimitedOutput.  Program will exit.
Preview error. Some settings must be changed.
Note: Preview errors are generally due to a wrong encoding setting.
org.talend.designer.runprocess.shadow.ShadowFilePreview.preview(ShadowFilePreview.java:90)
org.talend.repository.ui.utils.ShadowProcessHelper.getCsvArray(ShadowProcessHelper.java:385)
org.talend.repository.ui.wizards.metadata.connection.files.excel.ExcelFileStep2Form$PreviewProcessor.nonUIProcessInThread(ExcelFileStep2Form.java:969)
org.talend.commons.ui.swt.thread.SWTUIThreadProcessor$1.run(SWTUIThreadProcessor.java:74)

but in linux (ubuntu x64 11.04 - with sun-java) it works fine without a glitch.
any suggestions on this topic? any similar experiences? is this a bug?
thanks,

Nicolas

[Anonymous]

as a *test* that works
you can copy the installation folders
and paste in a path without spaces as suggested
you have to edit the talend*.ini file to use the new location 
you have to add the

-vm
c:\path\to\jdk\

see this: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

this file is in the root of the Talend installation.

[Anonymous]

Eclipse.ini file did not have any path to the jdk, so I added the path.
I also changed the working folder.
I did not move jdk or talend installations to a different folder
The preview error no longer occurs, so I can continue.

[Anonymous]

so ...
what you are saying is that by adding:

-vm
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_71\bin

everything is working as you expected.
namely, there are no problems

could you please confirm?

[Anonymous]

This is what my eclipse.ini now contains.  It was hard to find the correct ini file.  It was buried several folders under the Talend installation folder. 
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx500m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-vm C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_71
NOTE:  I also had to change my working folder to get it to work:
C:\Users\Pam\Documents\XMLDev
It is working now.

[Anonymous]

thanks for clarifying how you have resolved this issue.
enjoy your XML development

bye