Installing eclipse on FreeBSD 7

[weziw]

I have installed FreeBSD 7. I used portsnap to fetch extract and update all the ports, then did a pkgdb -F. After resolving all the dependencies, I installed gnome2, diablo jdk from the freebsd foundation http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ and then tried to install eclipse from ports (make install clean) which completed succesfuly. When I try to start up eclipse I am getting a pop up window with this message:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/local/bin/java
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar
-os freebsd
-ws gtk
-arch amd64
-launcher /usr/local/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
-showsplash 600
-exitdata 6000a
-vm /usr/local/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-jar /usr/local/eclipse/startup.jar

I found out that this might be a Java heap problem, so I modified the eclipse.ini file. The instructions were on this page:

http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2006/0...java-heap.html

under the heading:

How to set java heap size in Eclipse?

But this did not change the out come.
Any help or suggestions on how to correct this.

[ninjatux]

Actually, that might be an Eclipse issue. Eclipse has issues with certain versions of Java. I know it works fine with jdk16 on FreeBSD, but I use NetBeans because I like it better. Your best bet is to try with jdk16. By the way, I had a similar error on Gentoo Linux three or four months ago, and I couldn't fix it. The Eclipse irc folks just said to try different versions of jdk, which didn't help either.

[graudeejs]

I had no problem with eclipse....
But i don't remember if i already had jdk16, or still had jdk15
try with jdk16


however i prefer netbeans as well, because of gui editor