It happened to me because eclipse was using JRE and not JDK.
To force eclipse to use a given VM, edit
<eclipse_root>\eclipse.ini
and add those 2 lines at the top of the file:
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_45/bin/javaw.exe
Note:
Eclipse using JRE was triggering a:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/net/ssl/SSLSocket
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/net/ssl/SSLSocket
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.SchemeRegistryFactory.createDefault(SchemeRegistryFactory.java:45)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.createClientConnectionManager(AbstractHttpClient.java:294)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.getConnectionManager(AbstractHttpClient.java:445)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.createHttpContext(AbstractHttpClient.java:274)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:797)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:754)
at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient4.HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.runRequest(HttpClientFileSystemBrowser.java:263)
at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.browse.AbstractFileSystemBrowser$DirectoryJob.run(AbstractFileSystemBrowser.java:69)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket cannot be found by org.apache.httpcomponents.httpclient_4.1.3.v201209201135
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:455)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:421)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:412)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)