I did a clean install of OS X, now the installation of Eclipse Kepler won't work. On startup I get an error (before eclipse asks me what workspace to use). The error includes:
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Ignoring option MaxPermSize; support was removed in 8.0
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage (file:/Users/jodeneve/Downloads/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.osgi_3.9.0.v20130529-1710.jar) to method java.net.URLClassLoader.addURL(java.net.URL)
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.BaseStorage
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
Opening the log file I see that it uses java 9.0. (not what I want) I believe for it to work it needs to use an older version of java. Therefor I installed older versions and I use jenv to switch between them. e.g. jenv global 1.6 which changes the global java version used to 1.6, I check this using java -version. However opening eclipse still results in a log file saying it used java version 9. Any clues?
I need Kepler because I want to use plug in only available (or working) on Kepler or older eclipse versions.
Try changing the eclipse.ini file to point to the 1.6 path. Should look like this in the file:
More information on the eclipse.ini file can be found here: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini