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Error Starting Eclipse [message #1773481]

Thu, 28 September 2017 14:05

T J

Messages: 1
Registered: September 2017

Junior Member

I am brand new to Eclipse and a super noob (apologies).

I have Java 9 and I downloaded Eclipse Oxygen.

I have not yet been able to open Eclipse. When I try to open it, it asks me to set a workspace. After I set the workspace, I get this message:

An error has occurred.
See the log file
/Path/workspace/.metadata/.log.

I don't know how to open the log to view the error.

I also think it's strange to get an error when I have never even successfully opened and used Eclipse! Can anyone help?

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Re: Error Starting Eclipse [message #1773491 is a reply to message #1773481]

Thu, 28 September 2017 15:16

Nitin Dahyabhai

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Registered: July 2009

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None of the released Eclipse versions work out-of-the-box with Java 9; those versions will come next month starting with Oxygen.1a. Follow these instructions to get the older version to work with Java 9: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Configure_Eclipse_for_Java_9#Configure_Eclipse_for_Java_9_modules , or go back to Java 8 for now. You can use the -vm command line switch to force Eclipse to use a specific JVM executable. You can find more info that at https://help.eclipse.org/oxygen/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm?cp=0_3_0 .

(And a thanks to Ed Merks, whose original reply I'm mostly just copying and pasting here)

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Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

[Updated on: Thu, 28 September 2017 15:17]

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