Mac OS, JDK1.7 (and 1.8) does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol

Question

I need to run Eclipse Kepler on Mac OS through a JDK 1.7 (This is required by the PyDev plugin).

The problem is that although I have managed to install the 1.7 jdk a

Answer 1

I had a perfectly working Eclipse Luna, and started getting this error while trying to upgrade to Java 8 (and updating jre, jdk etc). Shan's solution didn't work for me. So I just downloaded and installed latest Eclipse. It's working fine. Saves the time of debugging and fiddling around.