Eclipse won't start after installing Mac OS X Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10)

Question

Right after upgrading to Mac OS Yosemite (10.10), my Eclipse won\'t start anymore. Instead I get

The JVM shared library /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachi

Answer 1

After upgrading to yosemite, java 6 jdk is no longer available, remember that jdk 6 for mac osx is a 32-bit application, older eclipse releases needs a 32-bit jvm in order to run properly, a 32-bit application cannot run with a 64-bit jvm like java 7 or 8, so you need to install jdk 6 to run those java applications that needs a 32 bit virtual machine. As already posted here you can download jdk 6 from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US