Question

I’m using Eclipse juno and osx 10.8 . I have java 7 with eclipse setup by doing the trick here:
Eclipse 4.2, Mac OS X 10.8 (ML), and Java 6

sudo mkdir /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
sudo su ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk

When i go to switch workspaces I get a “Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine.” alert. Then I can start eclipse the normal way and its in the different workspace i chose. On the command line i see:

./eclipse -clean
 No binding table for org.eclipse.ui.contexts.dialog
 requested Java version ((null)) not available. Using Java at "" instead.
 JavaVM: Failed to load JVM: /bundle/Libraries/libserver.dylib
 JavaVM FATAL: Failed to load the jvm library.

Any idea how to make switching workspaces not throw the error and perform normally yet still use java 7?

I tried adding to info.plist:

<string>-vm</string>    
<string>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java</string>

as shown on stack overflow here

But i still get the error.

Answer 1

It seems to work now. I’m not sure what I did to make it work. Maybe restarting the computer, but i think it went away once i put a project in the workspace.