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Eclipse 3.1 on WinXP [message #141771]

Mon, 06 March 2006 21:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rustycanadian.hotmail.com

Hi all,

I'm trying to get Eclipse working on my work machine and I'm having the
single dumbest issue I've ever encountered.

When I try to run Eclipse using eclipse.exe, it says "Required Java
version: 1.4.1. Available: 1.3.1_01." but I've already installed Java 2
RE, SE v1.4.2_11.

However, if I double-click startup.jar, Eclipse opens without errors.

I'm just curious if anyone has any thoughts. I like using Eclipse as an
editor fo PHP, and it runs fine at home. But apparently I have issues
with something.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Jay

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Re: Eclipse 3.1 on WinXP [message #141824 is a reply to message #141771]

Tue, 07 March 2006 00:15

Jeff Myers

Messages: 489
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

For some reason Eclipse is still picking up 1.3.1 as the default JRE.
The easiest solution is to create a shortcut to eclipse.exe and add the
command line argument -vm <path to java.exe> to launch Eclipse.

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

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Re: Eclipse 3.1 on WinXP [message #142110 is a reply to message #141771]

Tue, 07 March 2006 20:07

Chris Gage

Messages: 74
Registered: July 2009

Member

Do you have the Oracle database client installed?

If you do, it may have inserted a statement into your system path to
point to a Java 131 inside the Oracle folder structure. This is a dumb
thing for a mainstream software package to do, but that's the way it is.
In which case, go into your environment variables and remove that
reference, and try again.

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Re: Eclipse 3.1 on WinXP [message #142214 is a reply to message #142110]

Wed, 08 March 2006 16:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rustycanadian.hotmail.com

I'd like to thank both of you for your answers.

As Chris suspected, it was caused by statements entered by Oracle into my
system path. Once I removed them, Eclipse started up fine.

In case anyone wonders, I removed the following:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.8\bin;

Thanks for your help,
Jay

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