Neon: how to run on jdk9?

Question

Just started playing with jdk9 - and kind-of stuck right at the beginning:

• downloaded and extracted eclipse-java-neon-m4a-win32
• installed java 9 supp

Answer 1

This issue sometimes due to having a different version of java in the machine. I solved this issue to update the .ini file with the correct version. Below configuration is working for me.

• startup
  plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.4.0.v20161219-1356.jar
• vm
  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_202\bin\javaw.exe
• vmargs
  
• Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
  
• Xmx2G
  
• Xms200m
  
• XX:MaxPermSize=512m