google / google/google-java-format
Eclipse 2020.09 unable to load the plugin
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I am unable to get the Eclipse plugin to work. I have reinstalled Eclipse, tried both plugin version 1.6 and 1.8.
Eclipse version 2020.09. OpenJDK 11 is the system JRE/JDK.

When I open the Eclipse formatter settings I get an error message in the Eclipse error log.
Unable to instantiate formatter extension 'com.google.googlejavaformat.java.GoogleJavaFormatter', returning built-in formatter.
An exception stack trace is not available.
eclipse.buildId=4.17.0.I20200902-1800
java.version=11.0.8
java.vendor=N/A
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Framework arguments: -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
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