[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Mac snow leopard and subclipse

["Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tom Van Vleck" <thvv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:thvv-27009D.10283808092009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Walter Harley" wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried Snow Leopard yet, but my understanding is that it removes
>> Java 1.5 and switches the default JVM to Java 1.6 (64-bit, presumably). 
>> So
>> if I'm correct about that, you'll need to either install a Java 1.5 VM, 
>> and
>> make sure that your eclipse.ini points to it, or else change to a Cocoa
>> 64-bit build.
>
> Snow Leopard provides 32 and 64 bit Java 1.6.  Both 32 and
> 64-bit Cocoa Eclipse seemed to work.  64-bit Eclipse works
> with Subclipse 1.4.x so far.  Snow Leopard seems faster
> overall.

Sometimes running Eclipse with the -debug command line option can help 
troubleshoot problems with plug-ins not loading.