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making eclipse follow the java_home variable [message #548226]

Wed, 21 July 2010 07:46

No real name

Messages: 5
Registered: July 2010

Junior Member

I get a warning message when starting eclipse

Eclipse is running in a JRE, but a JDK is required
Some Maven plugins may not work when importing projects or updating source folders.

I could set the -vm path in the eclipse.ini file to just point to the correct JDK, however I am preparing a package that will be used by several persons on different computers.

Thus I would like to set -vm to follow the JAVA_HOME environment varible instead. How do I do this?

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Re: making eclipse follow the java_home variable [message #548352 is a reply to message #548226]

Wed, 21 July 2010 14:16

Eric Rizzo

Messages: 3070
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 7/21/10 3:46 AM, henrik.sjostrom@scila.se wrote:
> I get a warning message when starting eclipse
>
> Eclipse is running in a JRE, but a JDK is required
> Some Maven plugins may not work when importing projects or updating
> source folders.
>
> I could set the -vm path in the eclipse.ini file to just point to the
> correct JDK, however I am preparing a package that will be used by
> several persons on different computers.
> Thus I would like to set -vm to follow the JAVA_HOME environment varible
> instead. How do I do this?

You can't; this bug has a request for it:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=94087

The good news is that you can include the JDK in the package that you're
preparing. If you create a directory <eclipse-home>/jre and put the JDK
in there, Eclipse will use that by default.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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Re: making eclipse follow the java_home variable [message #548781 is a reply to message #548226]

Thu, 22 July 2010 23:58

Nilesh

Messages: 12
Registered: June 2010

Junior Member

Hello,
this may be unrelated, but instead of sticking the JDK into a directory named JRE, i just changed my JRE installed directory location to point to my JDK, and it worked.

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