Error occurred during initialization of VM (java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object)

Question

I\'m trying to install Java to use Eclipse (I followed all instructions to install Java and Eclipse) but my Eclipse is not starting due to some bad configuration I guess. I

Answer 1

Go to Eclipse folder, locate eclipse.ini file, add following entry (before -vmargs if present):

-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10\bin\javaw.exe

Save file and execute eclipse.exe.