diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/AllTemplateEngineTests.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/AllTemplateEngineTests.java
index df276976f53..d588e80a747 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/AllTemplateEngineTests.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/AllTemplateEngineTests.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import junit.framework.TestSuite;
  * @since 4.0
  */
 
-public class AllTemplateEngineTests extends TestSuite{
+public class AllTemplateEngineTests extends TestSuite {
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
 		junit.swingui.TestRunner.run(AllTemplateEngineTests.class);
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestProcesses.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestProcesses.java
index 66ff1d573f4..2bb9af58ad6 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestProcesses.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestProcesses.java
@@ -13,11 +13,10 @@ package org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests.templateengine;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.CCorePlugin;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateCore;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateEngine;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.testplugin.util.BaseTestCase;
 import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile;
 import org.eclipse.core.resources.IFolder;
 import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform;
 
-public class TestProcesses extends TestCase {
+public class TestProcesses extends BaseTestCase {
 	
 	private static final String workspaceLocation = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getRawLocation().toOSString();
 	private static final String PROJECT_NAME = "TemplateEngineTestsProject"; //$NON-NLS-1$
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestSharedDefaults.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestSharedDefaults.java
index 5fa2d6a8862..f38821233dd 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestSharedDefaults.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestSharedDefaults.java
@@ -15,16 +15,15 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.SharedDefaults;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.testplugin.util.BaseTestCase;
 
 
 /**
 * Executes all the test cases of SharedDefaults backend functionality
 */
 
-public class TestSharedDefaults extends TestCase {
+public class TestSharedDefaults extends BaseTestCase {
 	private SharedDefaults sharedDefaults;
 	
 	/*
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateCore.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateCore.java
index c63e24795f8..6073e8aa739 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateCore.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateCore.java
@@ -10,14 +10,13 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests.templateengine;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateCore;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.testplugin.util.BaseTestCase;
 
 /**
  * Test the functionality of Tempalte Class.
  */
-public class TestTemplateCore extends TestCase {
+public class TestTemplateCore extends BaseTestCase {
 
     public TemplateCore[] templates = null;
     
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateEngine.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateEngine.java
index 98cf4fd551b..ce862462f88 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateEngine.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestTemplateEngine.java
@@ -10,14 +10,13 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests.templateengine;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateEngine;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.testplugin.util.BaseTestCase;
 
 /**
  * Test the functionality of TemplateEngine.
  */
-public class TestTemplateEngine extends TestCase {
+public class TestTemplateEngine extends BaseTestCase {
 
     
     TemplateEngine templateEngine = null;
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestValueStore.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestValueStore.java
index 8a2b3002ec2..42f0e45c710 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestValueStore.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/tests/templateengine/TestValueStore.java
@@ -13,16 +13,15 @@ package org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests.templateengine;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import junit.framework.TestCase;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateCore;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateDescriptor;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.testplugin.util.BaseTestCase;
 
 
 /**
  * Test the functionality of the ValueStore class.
  */
-public class TestValueStore extends TestCase {
+public class TestValueStore extends BaseTestCase {
 
 
 	/**
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateCore.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateCore.java
index edab12bc362..96f289ed3ce 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateCore.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateCore.java
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 package org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -20,15 +22,12 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 
-import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
-
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.CCorePlugin;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.process.ProcessFailureException;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.process.TemplateProcessHandler;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 
 /**
@@ -66,17 +65,19 @@ public class TemplateCore {
 	private boolean fireDirtyEvents;
 	
 	/**
-	 * Constructor
-	 * 
-	 * @param templateInfo
-	 * @throws IOException
-	 * @throws SAXException
-	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
+	 * @param templateInfo may not be null
+	 * @throws TemplateInitializationException
 	 */
-
-	protected TemplateCore(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
+	protected TemplateCore(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws TemplateInitializationException {
 		this.templateInfo = templateInfo;
-		templateDescriptor = new TemplateDescriptor(TemplateEngineHelper.getTemplateResourceURL(templateInfo.getPluginId(), templateInfo.getTemplatePath()), templateInfo.getPluginId());
+		URL descriptorURL;
+		try {
+			descriptorURL= TemplateEngineHelper.getTemplateResourceURL(templateInfo.getPluginId(), templateInfo.getTemplatePath());
+		} catch(IOException ioe) {
+			String msg= MessageFormat.format(TemplateEngineMessages.getString("TemplateCore.InitFailed"), new Object[]{templateInfo.getTemplatePath()}); //$NON-NLS-1$
+			throw new TemplateInitializationException(msg);
+		}
+		templateDescriptor = new TemplateDescriptor(descriptorURL, templateInfo.getPluginId());
 		valueStore = new ValueStore/*<String, String>*/(this);
 		valueStore.putAll(templateDescriptor.getTemplateDefaults(templateDescriptor.getRootElement()));
 		valueStore.putAll(TemplateEngine.getDefault().getSharedDefaults());
@@ -221,14 +222,10 @@ public class TemplateCore {
 	 * Gets the Template
 	 * 
 	 * @param templateInfo
-	 * @throws IOException
-	 * @throws ProcessFailureException
-	 * @throws SAXException
-	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
-     * 
+	 * @throws TemplateInitializationException
      * @since 4.0
 	 */
-	public static TemplateCore getTemplate(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws IOException, ProcessFailureException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
+	public static TemplateCore getTemplate(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws TemplateInitializationException {
 		synchronized (templateCache) {
 			TemplateCore template = (TemplateCore) templateCache.get(templateInfo);
 			if (template == null) {
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateDescriptor.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateDescriptor.java
index f868b2362a5..9ebb0910dc7 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateDescriptor.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateDescriptor.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ package org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -46,15 +47,22 @@ public class TemplateDescriptor {
 	/**
 	 * Constructor  which construct the Document based the URL
 	 * @param descriptorURL
-	 * @throws SAXException
-	 * @throws IOException
-	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException
+	 * @throws TemplateInitializationException
 	 */
-	public TemplateDescriptor(URL descriptorURL, String id) throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
-		document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(descriptorURL.openStream());
-		rootElement = document.getDocumentElement();
-		persistVector = new ArrayList/*<String>*/();
-		pluginId = id;
+	public TemplateDescriptor(URL descriptorURL, String pluginId) throws TemplateInitializationException {
+		String msg= MessageFormat.format(TemplateEngineMessages.getString("TemplateCore.InitFailed"), new Object[]{descriptorURL}); //$NON-NLS-1$
+		try {
+			this.document = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(descriptorURL.openStream());
+		} catch(ParserConfigurationException pce) {
+			throw new TemplateInitializationException(msg, pce);
+		} catch(IOException ioe) {
+			throw new TemplateInitializationException(msg, ioe);
+		} catch(SAXException se) {
+			throw new TemplateInitializationException(msg, se);
+		}
+		this.rootElement = document.getDocumentElement();
+		this.persistVector = new ArrayList/*<String>*/();
+		this.pluginId = pluginId;
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.java
index a02609646b7..8e5c70c90f7 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateEngine.java
@@ -66,46 +66,54 @@ public class TemplateEngine {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * get All the templates, no filtering is done.
-	 * 
-	 * @return
+	 * Returns all the TemplateCore objects, no filtering is done.
 	 */
 	public TemplateCore[] getTemplates() {
 		TemplateInfo[] templateInfoArray = getTemplateInfos();
-		List/*<Template>*/ templatesList = new ArrayList/*<Template>*/();
+		List/*<TemplateCore>*/ tcores = new ArrayList/*<TemplateCore>*/();
 		for (int i=0; i<templateInfoArray.length; i++) {
 			TemplateInfo info = templateInfoArray[i];
 			try {
-				templatesList.add(TemplateCore.getTemplate(info));
-			} catch (Exception e) {
+				tcores.add(TemplateCore.getTemplate(info));
+			} catch (TemplateInitializationException e) {
+				CCorePlugin.log(e);
 			}
 		}
-		return (TemplateCore[]) templatesList.toArray(new TemplateCore[templatesList.size()]);
+		return (TemplateCore[]) tcores.toArray(new TemplateCore[tcores.size()]);
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This method will be called by Contianer UIs (Wizard, PropertyPage,
-	 * PreferencePage). Create a Template instance, update the ValueStore, with
-	 * SharedDefaults. This method calls the getTemplate(URL), after getting URL
-	 * for the given String TemplateDescriptor.
-	 * 
-	 * @param StringTemplateDescriptor,
-	 *            TemplateDescriptor name.
-	 * @throws IOException
+	 * Returns the TemplateCore for the first template defined for the specified parameters, or null
+	 * if no such definition exists, or if there is an error initializing the template (the error will
+	 * be logged). 
+	 * @param projectType may not be null
+	 * @param toolChain may be null to indicate no tool-chain filtering
+	 * @param usageFilter a regex in java.util.regex.Pattern format, may be null to indicate no filtering
+	 * @see java.util.regex.Pattern
+	 * @return
+	 */
+	public TemplateCore getFirstTemplate(String projectType, String toolChain, String usageFilter) {
+		TemplateInfo[] infos= getTemplateInfos(projectType, toolChain, usageFilter);
+		if(infos.length>0) {
+			try {
+				return TemplateCore.getTemplate(infos[0]);
+			} catch(TemplateInitializationException tie) {
+				CCorePlugin.log(tie);
+			}
+		}
+		return null;
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Equivalent to calling the overloaded version of getFirstTemplate with null arguments for
+	 * toolChain and usageFilter.
+	 * @see TemplateEngine#getFirstTemplate(String, String, String)
+	 * @return the first TemplateCore object registered, or null if this does not exist
 	 */
 	public TemplateCore getFirstTemplate(String projectType) {
 		return getFirstTemplate(projectType, null, null);
 	}
 
-	public TemplateCore getFirstTemplate(String projectType, String toolChain, String usageFilter) {
-		try {
-			return TemplateCore.getTemplate(getTemplateInfos(projectType, toolChain, usageFilter)[0]);
-		} catch (Exception e) {
-			// ignore
-		}				
-		return null;
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * This method will be called by Contianer UIs (Wizard, PropertyPage,
 	 * PreferencePage). Create a Template instance, update the ValueStore, with
@@ -119,7 +127,8 @@ public class TemplateEngine {
 			TemplateInfo info = templateInfoArray[i];
 			try {
 				templatesList.add(TemplateCore.getTemplate(info));
-			} catch (Exception e) {
+			} catch (TemplateInitializationException tie) {
+				CCorePlugin.log(tie);
 			}
 		}
 		return (TemplateCore[]) templatesList.toArray(new TemplateCore[templatesList.size()]);
@@ -273,6 +282,11 @@ public class TemplateEngine {
 	
 	/**
 	 * Gets an array of template info objects matching the criteria passed as params.
+	 * @param projectType may not be null
+	 * @param toolChain may be null to indicate no tool-chain
+	 * @param usageFilter a usage string which is matched against the filter from the template, may be null
+	 * to indicate no usage filtering
+	 * @return an array of template infos (never null)
 	 */
 	public TemplateInfo[] getTemplateInfos(String projectType, String toolChain, String usageFilter) {
 		List/*<TemplateInfo>*/ templateInfoList = (List/*<TemplateInfo*/) templateInfoMap.get(projectType.trim());
@@ -315,6 +329,10 @@ public class TemplateEngine {
 		return getTemplateInfos(projectType, null, null);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Returns all TemplateInfo objects known to the TemplateEngine
+	 * @return
+	 */
 	public TemplateInfo[] getTemplateInfos() {
 		List/*<TemplateInfo>*/ infoList = new ArrayList/*<TemplateInfo>*/();
 		for (Iterator i = templateInfoMap.values().iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateInitializationException.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateInitializationException.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..56b8ae8b4cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/TemplateInitializationException.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2007 Symbian Software Limited and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Andrew Ferguson (Symbian) - Initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine;
+
+
+/**
+ * Represents an exception in initializing a template. Typically this will be caused
+ * by an I/O or XML parsing failure.
+ */
+public class TemplateInitializationException extends Exception {
+	private static final long serialVersionUID = -8138820172406447119L;
+
+	public TemplateInitializationException() {
+		super();
+	}
+	
+	public TemplateInitializationException(String message) {
+		super(message);
+	}
+	
+	public TemplateInitializationException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+		super(message);
+		initCause(cause);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/messages.properties b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/messages.properties
index 08fb3cac580..63cc89c65dc 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/messages.properties
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/core/templateengine/messages.properties
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 ###############################################################################
 
 TemplateEngine.internalError=Internal Error: 
+TemplateCore.InitFailed=Failed to initialize: {0}
 TemplateEngine.templateEngine=Template Engine
 ProjectCreatedActions.InsufficientInformation=Insufficient information to create new project
 
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/Template.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/Template.java
index 2af57b16129..94cde9ebb5a 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/Template.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/Template.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.cdt.ui.templateengine;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -18,8 +17,6 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
-
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
@@ -28,12 +25,12 @@ import org.eclipse.jface.wizard.IWizardPage;
 import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWizard;
 import org.eclipse.ui.actions.WorkspaceModifyOperation;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateCore;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateDescriptor;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateEngine;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateInfo;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateInitializationException;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.process.ProcessFailureException;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.ui.CUIPlugin;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.ui.templateengine.pages.UIPagesProvider;
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ public class Template extends TemplateCore {
 	private UIPagesProvider uiPagesProvider;
 	private Map/*<String, UIWizardPage>*/ pageMap;
 	
-	public Template(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws IOException, ProcessFailureException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
+	public Template(TemplateInfo templateInfo) throws TemplateInitializationException {
 		super(templateInfo);
 		templateDescriptor = getTemplateDescriptor();
 		uiElementTreeBuilderManager = new UIElementTreeBuilderManager(new UIElementTreeBuilderHelper(templateDescriptor, templateInfo));
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/TemplateEngineUI.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/TemplateEngineUI.java
index dbaab4cb63a..63560bf05d4 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/TemplateEngineUI.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/templateengine/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/templateengine/TemplateEngineUI.java
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ package org.eclipse.cdt.ui.templateengine;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
-import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateCore;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.CCorePlugin;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateEngine;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateInfo;
-
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.templateengine.TemplateInitializationException;
 
 /**
  * TemplateEngine is implemented as a Singleton. TemplateEngine is responsible for 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public class TemplateEngineUI {
 	/**
 	 * static reference to the Singleton TemplateEngine instance.
 	 */
-	private static TemplateEngineUI TEMPLATE_ENGINE_UI = new TemplateEngineUI();
+	private static final TemplateEngineUI TEMPLATE_ENGINE_UI = new TemplateEngineUI();
 
 	private TemplateEngineUI() {
 	}
@@ -39,25 +39,6 @@ public class TemplateEngineUI {
 		return TEMPLATE_ENGINE_UI;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * This method will be called by Contianer UIs (Wizard, PropertyPage,
-	 * PreferencePage). Create a Template instance, update the ValueStore, with
-	 * SharedDefaults. This method calls the getTemplate(URL), after getting URL
-	 * for the given String TemplateDescriptor.
-	 */
-	public TemplateCore getFirstTemplate(String projectType) {
-		return getFirstTemplate(projectType, null, null);
-	}
-
-	public TemplateCore getFirstTemplate(String projectType, String toolChain, String usageFilter) {
-		try {
-			return new Template(TemplateEngine.getDefault().getTemplateInfos(projectType, toolChain, usageFilter)[0]);
-		} catch (Exception e) {
-			// ignore
-		}				
-		return null;
-	}
-
 	public Template[] getTemplates(String projectType, String toolChain, String usageFilter) {
 		TemplateInfo[] templateInfoArray = TemplateEngine.getDefault().getTemplateInfos(projectType, toolChain, usageFilter);
 		List/*<Template>*/ templatesList = new ArrayList/*<Template>*/();
@@ -65,7 +46,8 @@ public class TemplateEngineUI {
 			TemplateInfo info = templateInfoArray[i];
 			try {
 				templatesList.add(new Template(info));
-			} catch (Exception e) {
+			} catch (TemplateInitializationException tie) {
+				CCorePlugin.log(tie);
 			}
 		}
 		return (Template[]) templatesList.toArray(new Template[templatesList.size()]);
@@ -80,7 +62,7 @@ public class TemplateEngineUI {
 	}
 	
 	/**
-	 * get All the templates, no filtering is done.
+	 * Returns all the templates, no filtering is done.
 	 */
 	public Template[] getTemplates() {
 		TemplateInfo[] templateInfoArray = TemplateEngine.getDefault().getTemplateInfos();
@@ -88,7 +70,8 @@ public class TemplateEngineUI {
 		for (int i=0; i<templateInfoArray.length; i++) {
 			try {
 				templatesList.add(new Template(templateInfoArray[i]));
-			} catch (Exception e) {
+			} catch (TemplateInitializationException tie) {
+				CCorePlugin.log(tie);
 			}
 		}