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Sep 22
2008

Eclipse Ganymede and Java 6 update 10 RC

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Just a word of warning - my copy of Google Chrome suggested I install Java 6 update 10 RC last night to allow me to upload pics to facebook.  

Everything went okay but this morning Eclipse Ganymede was dead with no indication of why except a dialog box containing runtime parameters.  I uninstalled the new Java update and everything is fine again.

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  1. The same thing happened to me, but it got cleared up with a complete reboot. Everything seemed to work after that.

    Posted By Mike Rankin : Posted At 9/22/08 4:46 PM
  2. hey Adam, You can run eclipse under a different VM than the default. For example, you could add this to your eclipse.ini:

    -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06\bin\javaw.exe"

    Marc

    Posted By marc esher : Posted At 9/22/08 4:52 PM
  3. Alas, no reboot happiness for me. Same issue after reboot hence the "okay, what did I recently install that could have broke this" approach!

    Thanks for the tip Marc - wasn't aware I could do that and will no double help me have my Java 6 update 10 cake and eat it!

    Posted By Adam Howitt : Posted At 9/23/08 10:50 AM
  4. Thx Marc modifying the -vm in my link did it. That sux that update 10 isn't backward compatible :/

    Posted By Majax : Posted At 10/15/08 10:05 AM
  5. I've removed the line "-showsplash org.eclipse.platform"(without changing the version of jvm), and then eclipse works well with Jre 6update10.

    Posted By Siqin : Posted At 11/7/08 3:56 AM
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