After installing plugin, PHPStorm loads with error

[ghost]

This is a very similar behavior explained here https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-21507

I tried deleting the directory ./Web... under my home directory, as suggested in the thread and nothing changed. Rebooting phpstorm gave me the same error after, and the plugin doesn't show up in the tools menu.

Here's some breadcrumbs from the log file

11:03:33 AM PluginException: cannot create class "org.wavescale.sourcesync.action.ActionSourceSyncMenu" [Plugin: org.wavescale.sourcesync]
11:03:42 AM PluginException: cannot create class "org.wavescale.sourcesync.action.ActionProjectConnectionConfig" [Plugin: org.wavescale.sourcesync]

PHPStorm version 8.0.3 build ps-139.1348

[asebak]

Yes because the library is using java 7/8 so if java 7/8 is not the default java on your o/s it loads with error. I noticed the issue to, I recommend the plugin creator to downgrade to java 6 since most intellij plugins use that for compatibility purposes. Not sure if the creator was using java 8, because when I changed my IDE to use java 8 as the default his plugin loads fine.

[ghost]

I just installed Java 8, restarted PHPStorm, and the same error.

12:07:47 PM PluginException: cannot create class "org.wavescale.sourcesync.action.ActionLocalFileToRemote" [Plugin: org.wavescale.sourcesync]
12:07:56 PM PluginException: cannot create class "org.wavescale.sourcesync.action.ActionProjectConnectionConfig" [Plugin: org.wavescale.sourcesync]

Is there a easier, gui interfaced configuration for telling PHPStorm what Java version to use?

This one here isn't as friendly.
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/23395793-Configuring-JVM-options-and-platform-properties

[fioan89]

Hmmm... it might be one of two issues:

1. You dont have jdk 1.7 or 1.8 as default. I ' ve compiled the plugin targeting 1.7. As @asebak sugested there were some requests for supporting 1.6 but the thing is this version is out of support.
2. There are some prerequisites in the plugin manifest that filters out some jetbrains products. I'll have to check the manifest to see if php storm is supported by the manifest. Probably it is if you installed the plugin through jetbrains repository.

But for now I support the first statement.

[fioan89]

Ok so I've ruled out number two from may list. PHPStorm is not filtered out. Back on your question I think eve though you installed java 8, the previous version is still the default one. So if you don't want to mess with jetbrains config files you can try this if are a windows guy https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Setting+the+JAVA_HOME+Variable+in+Windows. If you are using linux search on google per your particular distribution.