Changing Eclipse default JVM

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, John Dong wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:13:21AM +0100, Malte Wehrend wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Would it be possible  to change the default JVM in future releases of Eclipse
>> (in the file /etc/eclipse/java_home )  to a JVM from sun (if installed, if
>> not display a hint ), instead of the gcj ?
>> Because it is really annoying that some (important) plugins i. e. subclipse
>> did not work correctly with the gcj-jvm.
>> After changing the default-JVM into a sun-JVM it works perfect :).
>>
>> I know that the sun-jvm at the moment is not as open as the gcj , but if some
>> plugins did not work, it is relatively senseless.
> That would cause Eclipse to be demoted to Multiverse status, along with
> everything that uses SWT and the other stuff that eclipse provides.

The file only lists the search order, so if the first entry is not found 
it'll try the second. I don't see why it couldn't be changed.


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