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Blessed Geek
Blessed Geek

Reputation: 21654

Having a single Eclipse installation, where simultaneous sessions are started up with different JDK installations, or different ini configurations

Giving STS as an example.

I wish to have only one single installation of Eclipse STS 3.9.7. Normally I run more than one session of Eclipse/STS. I need to have

I also have an Eclipse 2018-12 installation. I wish to have only one such installation, from which I wish to start

The only way I know how to specify the JDK is by specifying it on the ini config file. Perhaps there is another way. Therefore, currently I have multiple replicated copies of Eclipse/STS installations, each specified to start up from a different JDK.

Having proliferation of Eclipse/STS installations of the same version is very undesirable and confusing. Especially when I need to install or update modules from the Marketplace across all of them.

Is there a better way than having multiple replicated installations, in order to variously specify the JDK/bin/javaw paths to start up each of my sessions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 185

Answers (2)

howlger
howlger

Reputation: 34135

As an alternative to --launcher.ini <path> already mentioned by greg-449, there is a trick that works without any command line argument:

Copy the executable (eclipse.exe on Windows, eclipse on macOS and Linux) and the eclipse.ini files. When you execute the renamed executable file, the correspondingly renamed .ini file instead of eclipse.ini is used.

Upvotes: 1

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

You can use the --launcher.ini <path> command line option to specify a different 'config.ini' file to use when starting Eclipse.

Upvotes: 1

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