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Re: Eclipse and Java 1.5 user report



>>>>I worked around this problem by using Sun's J2SDK 1.5 to run Eclipse. Luckily
>>>>you've made it very easy to do so: I just had to change some lines in
>>>>/etc/eclipse/java_home or in ~/.eclipse/eclipserc.
>>>
>>>Could you explain what to do exactly ?
>>
>>Either put the path where you install Java5 to on the top of
>>/etc/eclipse/java_home or put this into ~/.eclipse/eclipserc:
>>
>>JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/sunjdk

Also, the file /etc/eclipse/java_home usually contains some explaination
of those two mechanisms.

> Or set the JAVA_HOME environment variable through your shell's
> configuration files to suns jdk.

The latter has the disadvantage, that it might also affect other Java
applications.



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