[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Eclipse 3.2 and JRE/JDK

["Walter Harley" <wharley@xxxxxxx>]

"Guillaume Boucher" <guillaume.boucher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:85b1e0b51c263653dbf60db23e827ef3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>   i'm a IT tech working for a public school. I have been ask to install 
> eclipse 3.2.0 in some of our pc labs. The installation of eclipse 3.2.0 is 
> very easy to do since i just have to unzip everything at the root of my C 
> drive (C:\eclipse). But my problem is that once i run it i then can't have 
> access to the Window>Preferences>Java since it's not there! Or the 
> application eclipse won't even start telling me look in the log in the 
> workbench...

1. Have you looked in the log?  If one exists, it would be in the .metadata 
directory of the workspace.

2. Precisely what do you mean by "i then can't have access to the 
Window>Preferences>Java since it's not there"?  What is not where?

3. When you say "Or the application eclipse won't even start", do you mean 
that sometimes Eclipse will start and sometimes it won't?

4. Have you tried specifying the Java VM explicitly, using the -vm command 
line option?  (Although, judging from your path that should not be 
necessary.)


As an aside, you might consider installing 3.2.2, which contains half a 
year's worth of additional bug fixes compared to 3.2.0.