[dnedrow]

Has anyone successfully been able to configure Eclipse to run using Java 6 on a Mac?

Using 10.5.x and the release version of Java 6, I am unable to start MyEclipse after setting the -vm option in Info.plist as follows:

<string>-vm</string>
<string>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Commands/java</string>

Simply changing that line back to 1.5 allows MyEclipse to run normally. Having it set to 1.6 causes MyEclipse to throw up an error message and generate the following log entry…

Sep 25 12:05:25 MBP com.apple.launchd[100] ([0x0-0xfe0fe].MyEclipse 6.5 - Pulse Edition[4364]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 4365 PPID 1 eclipse
Sep 25 12:05:25 MBP [0x0-0xfe0fe].MyEclipse 6.5 - Pulse Edition[0]: _NSJVMLoadLibrary: NSAddLibrary failed for /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Libraries/libjvm.dylib
Sep 25 12:05:25 MBP [0x0-0xfe0fe].MyEclipse 6.5 - Pulse Edition[0]: JavaVM FATAL: Failed to load the jvm library.

Is this maybe a 64 v 32 bit problem?

-David

[Loyal Water]

David,
I haven’t tried this myself but other users could give their inputs on this.

[cporter71]

I just ran into this problem today. Any resolution (other than rolling back)?

[Loyal Water]

This could be a combination of both Java 6 and 64-bit and we have noted it as a BUG that we will look into in the future, but the trick will be to use Java 5 for now.

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