Eclipse on Mac OS X: set the Java runtime used by eclipse by editting eclipse.ini

Edit eclipse.ini:

vi /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini

insert the following lines before -vmargs:

-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_55.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
-vmargs

see also

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#Specifying_the_JVM