Well, today I added Java 10 to my Windows 10 machine and it broke eclipse Neon. My copy of Neon doesn't work with Java 10, so I explicitly ask it to use Java 8 in eclipse.ini. What am I doing wrong? I'm stumped. Neon keeps trying to use Java 10 to launch, regardless of my -vm setting.
eclipse.ini
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.201.v20161025-1711.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.401.v20161122-1740
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
log output after failed launch with Neon trying to use Java 10:
!SESSION 2018-05-11 17:25:40.179 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=4.6.3.M20170301-0400 java.version=10.0.1 java.vendor=Oracle Corporation BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_US Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2018-05-11 17:25:42.747 !MESSAGE Application error !STACK 1 org.eclipse.e4.core.di.InjectionException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/PostConstruct at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.internalMake(InjectorImpl.java:386)
This is the message I get from Eclipse when it crashes.
If I change JAVA_HOME and the java bin on my path to Java8's directories, Neon will run. So it seems to be reading env vars over the ini file, which seems backwards to my understanding of eclipse's vm hunting procedure.
