I updated java and eclipse does not work

Question

I updated my JRE today 23.06.2012, and after that eclipse will no longer start. When I double click to start up eclipse the splash screen appears like a camera flash and th

Answer 1

USING THE LATEST JAVA UPDATE TOOL.

Let say you updated thru http://java.com/en/download/installed8.jsp then you just ran down thru the update process of Java and just next next the update process of Java then opening up eclipse you encountered the same issue here.

To fix this go to Environment Variables of Windows and check the "Path" variable you could notice that the Java update process added an entry similarly like this "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" remove this and add "JAVA_HOME" if you have one or the location of your Java. Also note that you must enter at the start of the "Path" environment.

This happens to me and removing the added entry of Java update resolve the issue and adding also the -vm and path of the Java in the eclipse.ini.

{Sorry don't have any screenshots to prove it}