Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Eclipse on MacOS

Reference Link: http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/eclipseide/java_sources_on_mac_os_x/

It seems that that in some Mac OS systems, Eclipse IDE does not show the sources for JRE classes. If so, perform the following to access the source:

1) Download and install Java for Mac OS X Developer Package (registration required).
2)This will create a folder /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_*/Contents/Home that can be added as JRE in Eclipse:

Eclipse JRE configuration

And thats it.. Now you can access the source.. However it works fine for me without this solution(:)


Another issue while you launch your java application in eclipse on MAS OS :
It throws linker error exception.. you could resolve this by using the argument -d32 for VM arguments of your launch config.