Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Eclipse "Unable to locate JRE 1.8.0_40" after java update

After the update  of java 1.8.0_45 my eclipse stopped working because it is unable to locate old version of java and got error "unable to locate JRE 1.8.0_40", following are steps to solve the problem.

1. Go to file which  you want to run
2.Right click on file -> go to "Run as"- > Go to "Run Configurations"
3. on the right large box of Run configuration go to JRE tab and select  alternate JRE and click on installed JRE, on the right side select add button -> select standard VM and in the JRE home select  directory of your JRE   ,when jar files list  is added click "Finish". Hit apply and run your java file