Console shows terminated message in eclipse

Question

Whenever I run a program in eclipse whose configuration is

Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers.
Version: Indigo Service Release 2 
Build id: 20120216-1857

I get a blank console with the following terminated message

Is there something wrong with the build path?

My code is a basic hello world application

import java.lang.*;
 public class Connection {

/**
 * @param args
 */
public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    System.out.println("Hello World");
}

}

Answer 1

Terminated means that the execution (of your program, or tool, ...) is complete and the JVM exited. It is not an indication that anything has gone wrong in itself.

Whether your program exits with no error, or with a nasty stack trace, you'll see this message.

Normally, if a program has sent anything to system.out or System.err, you would see it in the console, though.

There are additional suggestions here

Answer 2

1. Close Console and reopen - Window -> Show View -> Console.

2. Brute force method - Restart Eclipse.

3. If above doesn't work for you try this. Here a lot of other possible problems and solutions are there.