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

[Jiri Vanek]

On 10/30/2014 09:46 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just upgraded to Fedora 21. There is only OpenJDK 8 on F21. I
> need Oracle JDK 7 for Android Development so I have set that as my
> system default so that I can use it with Android Studio too. Eclipse
> Luna crashes with JDK 7. As per this bug report [1] Eclipse Luna
> requires Java 8 on F21. Upstream Eclipse Luna requires JDK 7 or above.
> How can I use Eclipse Luna on F21 with Oracle JDK 7 as default?

Dont use oracle blob.
If you need 7, rebuild f20 openjdk7 packages.
Then you will have two jdks, and will be able to switrhc among them via alternatives.


J.