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ramsvidor
ramsvidor

Reputation: 1490

Eclipse Indigo doesn't run on Mountain Lion with JDK 7

I've been trying to run Eclipse using the JDK 7 (tried the official 7u5 release and the developer preview 7u6) on Mountain Lion, but it seems it always use the Apple's JDK 6u33.

I tried configuring the Info.plist to look for the vm on my JDK 7 installation path, but when I check the VM Eclipse is using, it shows up the 6u33.

I do can configure the JDK on Installed JRE's on Eclipse and use it to compile and validate my Java 7 project, but I can't use Hibernate Tools to generate my entities on the database, because the Hibernate Configurations can't load the entities using the JDK 6 on a project set to Java 7.

Is anyone successfully running Eclipse Indigo on JDK 7 on Mac OS X Mountain Lion? If yes, how could I do it?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE

Just found a way to run Indigo on Mountain Lion on this link: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/58203/mountain-lion-with-java-7-only

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6719

Answers (2)

yudis
yudis

Reputation: 49

It is dirty... but it works.. Trick your MAC that you have 1.6.0 though it points to Java 7

sudo mkdir /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk

Upvotes: 0

wurstmeister
wurstmeister

Reputation: 76

you can simply modify your eclipse.ini to point to JDK 7

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#-vm_value:_Mac_OS_X_Example

i.e. add the following 2 lines to eclipse.ini: 

-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

Upvotes: 0

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