Eclipse does not start when I run the exe?

Question

When I run the Eclipse.exe within the given folder, it will not start. The Eclipse splash screen will appear for a split second then close. There are no errors.

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Answer 1

I just had this issue in Eclipse Neon. After trying all these suggestions, it turned out that in my case the problem was improperly configured path variables.

There is a pretty good answer already posted here which explains it, but I'll summarize it in this answer for convenience.

You will need to go into your User Environment Variables panel and modify the following values:

• JAVA_HOME : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_102
• JDK_HOME : %JAVA_HOME%
• JRE_HOME : %JAVA_HOME%\jre
• CLASSPATH : .;%JAVA_HOME%\lib;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib
• PATH : your-unique-entries;%JAVA_HOME%\bin (make sure that the longish your-unique-entries does not contain any other references to another Java installation folder.