[fedora-java] Eclipse Luna on Fedora 21 and JDK 8 requirement

Sudhir Khanger ml at sudhirkhanger.com
Fri Oct 31 21:33:33 UTC 2014


On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Mat Booth <fedora at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
> What prevents you from running Eclipse on OpenJDK 8 but still targeting your
> manually installed Oracle JDK 7 by adding it under "Installed JREs" in your
> Eclipse preferences?

I am running it under Java 8. So far without any visible problems. I
am curious about what has been modified/changed in Fedora 21 to
warrant requirement of Java 8. And if I want to run Eclipse or Android
Studio under Java 7 what would I have to do. Mostly for academic
purposes.

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