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This may also occur on other Windows releases but at least on Windows 8 if JDK8 is the default Java version the eclipse.exe launcher opens a "DOS box" seemingly calling java instead of javaw. A combination of Windows 7 and Java 7 does not show the same behavior.
> A combination of Windows 7 and Java 7 does not show the same behavior. Can you tell us what happens with these combinations: - Windows 7 + Java 8 - Windows 8 and Java 7 ?
(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #1) > > A combination of Windows 7 and Java 7 does not show the same behavior. > > Can you tell us what happens with these combinations: > - Windows 7 + Java 8 Tested this and it starts javaw correctly with JRE8 default and Kepler.
I'll also speak to Ben from the AdoptOpenJDK movement about it. Mike (Milinkovich) also considered joining PR forces with Adopt* and LJC about regular surveys, so it may be in their interest to make Eclipse run properly on Java 8, too ;-)
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