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Gasp0de

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Registered: 2012-12-24

Posts: 47

Eclipse won't start after changing from OpenJDK to Oracle JDK

Hi Folks.
My university made me install oracle jdk 7 because they want everyone to use the same tools for programming. I also had to install Apache ant (which was already installed and g0t reinstalled when i tried to install it). After i installed both those things, and set the oracle jdk to be the standard JDK via 'archlinux-java set java-7-jdk', Eclipse won't start. Changing the JDK back to openjdk doesn't seem to help. I posted the log on Pastebin (because it's extremely long):

http://pastebin.com/KDWPXqik

Does anyone have an idea how i can get Eclipse to work again?

Gasp0de

Last edited by Gasp0de (2014-10-17 15:16:40)

esdaniel

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From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-01

Posts: 59

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Re: Eclipse won't start after changing from OpenJDK to Oracle JDK

Can you re-check your setup with the advice given at the wiki and also note the recent news on the Arch home page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ja … etween_JVM
https://www.archlinux.org/news/java-use … e-upgrade/

If the problem persists I suggest:

#1 try specifying the jvm config when you launch Eclipse as per: http://blog.ankursharma.org/2009/08/vm- … se_29.html

#2 Get a setup running in a vm/container for the specific uni stuff so you are back up and running - fast track that by downloading a pre-built environment such as from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/commu … index.html or https://github.com/fgrehm/docker-eclipse

Last edited by esdaniel (2014-10-17 19:49:16)