Running Eclipse on Windows 7 JRE and JDK not found

Question

I downloaded the latest Eclipse on Windows 7. When I click the eclipse icon it throws the following exception:

Answer 1

Reference the location of your JRE path in the eclipse configuration file, eclipse.ini.

Note that you only need a JRE to launch Eclipse, but once Eclipse is launched, you should register a JDK for your projects. This is done via

Preferences-> Java -> Installed JREs