#Eclipse for mac java 1.6 install
#Eclipse for mac java 1.6 update

As this post suggests, you may have to make a change to the ist for the application to make it run with Java 1.5. Apparently Eclipse (and Flex Builder which is built on top of Eclipse) doesnt work with Java 1.6 on a Mac. After a few other attempts, including trying the Java Preferences Application without any luck, I finally found this post that basically talked about the CurrentJDK symlink that apparently my build.xml was using (and was still pointed to JDK 1.5). Set it as the default in Eclipse by selecting Preferences -> Java -> Installed JREs.

#Eclipse for mac java 1.6 install

That seemed to work and calling java – version and javac -version seemed to return the correct versions, but running the build file still did not work. Configure the default JRE Download and install a Java JDK v1.7 or greater. When a -vm argument is given, we parse it for the version of java to specify to JavaVM.' What this means is that even if you specify a particular VM to use in your eclipse.ini file by using the '-vm' argument, Eclipse still won't use that VM for launching itself or for compiling files Passing '1.5' to a 1.6 JavaVM won't make it a 1. The first thing I did was to change the symlinks for java and javac as mentioned on this post.

#Eclipse for mac java 1.6 update

The JDK 1.6 was part of one of the recent Mac Software updates but what I found out was that the update does not actually change the default JDK/JRE for the system. Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java and Web Developers Package Description Tools for developers working with Java and Web applications, including a Java IDE, tools for JavaScript, TypeScript, JavaServer Pages and Faces, Yaml, Markdown, Web Services, JPA and Data Tools, Maven and Gradle, Git, and more. However to actually get it to work I had to get the Java 1.6 code to compile on my Mac which was a little tricky. Mat is getting pretty involved in it and he got me curious about the project. My eclipse.ini file snippet showing -vm argument usage to configure eclipse to use JDK8 in. After not looking at it for 4 years, today I started playing with Java again for a new open source project called RedCar, a programmers text editor that is now being ported to SWT and JRuby. eclipse.ini vm argument is useful when you have multiple JDK installation and you want to make sure that your eclipse runs on a specific JVM, rather than picking system configured jdk path.