Eclipse is running in a JRE, but a JDK is required

January 16, 2009

i got this problem -

“Eclipse is running in a JRE, but a JDK is required
Some Maven plugins may not work when importing projects or updating source folders.”

I put the java home as C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05

and path – C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\bin

but i got this problem. let me say how i solve it -

open eclipse.ini from eclipse folder. put this line

-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\bin\javaw.exe

so the total file looks-

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.2.R34x_v20080826-1230.jar
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx512m

2nd way solution -

create a bat file under the eclipse folder and put this line

eclipse.exe  -vm “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\bin\javaw.exe”

save this file.  use this file for opening eclipse.


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