Finally got it: The way Eclipse picks up the JRE is using the system's PATH.
I did not have C:\home\SFTWR\jdk1.6.0_21\bin
in the path at all before and I did have C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
. I had both JRE_HOME
and JAVA_HOME
set to C:\home\SFTWR\jdk1.6.0_21
but neither of those two mattered. I guess Eclipse did (something to the effect of) where java (or which on UNIX/Linux) to see where Java is in the path and took the JRE to which that java.exe
belonged. In my case, despite all the configuration tweaks I had done (including eclipse.ini
-vm option as suggested above), it remained stuck to what was in the path.
I removed the old JRE bin from the path, put the new one in, and it works for all workspaces.
~ Answered on 2013-02-27 22:36:39