Point eclipse IDE to use another JRE / JDK other than one specified in JAVA_HOME

Question

I am having two JRE / SDK in my development environment, however it was necessary in my situation to set JAVA_HOME to 1.4.2, this is causing my eclipse IDE to stop running a

Answer 1

From the menu in the top.. Proceed as follows--

Project-->Properties--> Java Build Path--> Libraries--> JRE System Library.

Now click Edit . Select Alternate JRE. Click Installed JRE. Provide path to your other JDK. Then FINISH.

That's it.

Answer 2

Please try the eclipse.ini entry above the varargs (the following two lines must be two lines in the eclipse.ini file)

-vm
C:\Java\JDK\1.5\bin\javaw.exe

Find the JVM

Answer 3

Right click the project in Package Explorer -> Configure Build Path

Add Library -> JRE System Library

Set JRE system library to JDK

Verify JDK is the reference library