Java – eclipse installed but cannot start java returned exit-code = 1

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I recently installed eclipse-dsl-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64 and after extracting the files, as I started running Eclipse it gave me the following error :

Java was started but returned exit code=1 (required java version=1.5)

I checked the reason for this and also tried reinstalling as well as solutions suggested by other discussion forums, but to no avail.

I have installed

Eclipse IDE for Java and DSL Developers : eclipse-dsl-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64 under the Eclipse Juno SR1 packages AND
JDK 1.7.0_11 (x64)

I have linked my Environment Variables up correctly and tried to compile a Java file through cmd and have succeeded.

I tried running the following in cmd: -vm "mypath\jdk1.7.0_11\jre\bin" command as forums suggested

as well as other paths -vm "mypath\jdk1.7.0_11\bin" -vm "mypath\jdk1.7.0_11\jre\bin\javaw.exe" even -vm "mypath\jre6\bin" out of desperation to no avail.

Please help me out with this. I'm stuck 🙁

Best Answer

What worked for me was to set -vm to point to jvm.dll instead of java.exe or javaw.exe

-vm C:your_java\jre7\bin\client\jvm.dll

It seems a bug with Java 1.7. If you go back to Java 1.6 the problem seems to disappear as well.

Eclipse: Java was started but returned exit code -1073741571

Example

@echo off
my_nify_exe.exe
if errorlevel 1 (
   echo Failure Reason Given is %errorlevel%
   exit /b %errorlevel%
)

Warning: If you set an environment variable name errorlevel, %errorlevel% will return that value and not the exit code. Use (set errorlevel=) to clear the environment variable, allowing access to the true value of errorlevel via the %errorlevel% environment variable.

Java – Eclipse/Java code completion not working

Try restoring the default options in 'Windows > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist > Advanced'

An example of the kind of data you see in this preference screen, however not necessarily what you currently have.

eclipse content assist setting

(From Vadim in this blog post " Content Assist Duplicates in Eclipse (Mylyn)":
if have duplicate Mylyn entries, uncheck the duplicate entries that do not contain "(Mylyn)" in their name)

The Eclipse help page defines the default list to restore:

Select the proposal kinds contained in the 'default' content assist list:

Other Java Proposals,

SWT Template Proposals,

Template Proposals,

Type Proposals

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