Eclipse's error on startup in windows 7

Question

Good day.

I decided to learn Java. I installed JDK and downloaded eclipse-java-helios-SR1-win32 for windows 7.

But i can\'t launch eclipse becau

Answer 1

I got the same issue after installing jdk 7 update 9. Something must be wrong with this installation. I removed java/javaw/javaws exe files (as suggested in the above comment) from windows\system32 and eclipse started fine. Reinstalling JRE did not help.

Answer 2

Change your eclipse.ini (right beside the eclipse.exe) in order to:

• specify a full JVM path (-vm argument: -vm C:/Prog/Java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre/bin/server/jvm.dll for instance). Don't use the one in C:\Windows\System32.
• not specify the jar used for the launcher.library

See this eclipse.ini as an example.

Answer 3

I had the same issue after a Java update provided by my employer. Everything was working just fine and then the update arrived. Suddenly Eclipse Helios Service Release 2 did not launch giving me the same error msg that you got.

The solution was to download the latest JRE from www.java.com, JRE 1.6 update 30. I did not have to do any changes to eclipse.ini at all.

Hope this will help someone who is experiencing the same issue. :-)