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Mike DelGaudio OSX: Force.com IDE Open Perspective does not appear
Does anyone have any suggestions to get the Force.com perspective option to appear in Eclipse -- ON OSX Mavericks?
I installed eclipse, dragged it to Applications, and an able to open it.
I have followed the instructions here to install the Force.com IDE :https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE_Installation
I have searched, and all the articles, answered questions say to edit eclipse.ini to add an expicit path the the JRE. I've been unable to locate eclipse.ini on OSX. There is a config.ini, but I cannot find a line in that file that appears to be appropriate to edit.
I have tried Eclipse 4.2 and 4.3, and tried JRE 7, and JRE 8.
Eclipse-> About Eclipse->Installation Details shows that Force.com IDE is installed: "Force.com IDE 31.0.0.201406301722 com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group salesforce.com'
I cannot open a Force.com project, and the Perspective is not available as a choice.
I installed eclipse, dragged it to Applications, and an able to open it.
I have followed the instructions here to install the Force.com IDE :https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_IDE_Installation
I have searched, and all the articles, answered questions say to edit eclipse.ini to add an expicit path the the JRE. I've been unable to locate eclipse.ini on OSX. There is a config.ini, but I cannot find a line in that file that appears to be appropriate to edit.
I have tried Eclipse 4.2 and 4.3, and tried JRE 7, and JRE 8.
Eclipse-> About Eclipse->Installation Details shows that Force.com IDE is installed: "Force.com IDE 31.0.0.201406301722 com.salesforce.ide.feature.feature.group salesforce.com'
I cannot open a Force.com project, and the Perspective is not available as a choice.
That really helped, Avilion, I think I got it!
I figured it out, and it did have to do with the Java Version. The Instructions on the Force.com page indicate that you need the Java Runtime Environment, which -- silly me -- thought that meant the Java JRE... It doesn't. You need to download and install the Java JDK. The one I downloaded and installed was called "jdk-7u60-macosx-x64.dmg" from this page: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
As it turns out, it looks like if you install the Java 7 JRE (not the JDK) it somehow invalidates the Java 6 JDK that may already be on your system. So I could see the Java 6 jdk, and eclipse could find it, but the Force.com bits wouldn't work.
So, if you'd made that same mistake, you may need to tell eclipse that there's a new JDK on your system.
Go to Eclipse->Preferences. IN the preference page use the quick find to search for "Java", then scroll the left panel to "Installed JRE's"
On the right, click "Search" and hopefully, eclipse will find your new JDK / JRE installation. Check the new one as the default, and restart eclipse.
That's how I did it, anyway.
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Window > Open Prespective > Other | Select "Force.com"
By default Force.com doesn't have perspective open.
I've tried the Java 7 JRE (here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jre-7-download-432155.html) and the Java 8 JRE( form here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html)
Any information that you can provide about your configuration would be appreciated.
I am using Cocoa 64 bit installation and Eclipse Jee edition which is approximate 257 MB. Java JRE version is 6 in my machine.
That really helped, Avilion, I think I got it!
I figured it out, and it did have to do with the Java Version. The Instructions on the Force.com page indicate that you need the Java Runtime Environment, which -- silly me -- thought that meant the Java JRE... It doesn't. You need to download and install the Java JDK. The one I downloaded and installed was called "jdk-7u60-macosx-x64.dmg" from this page: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
As it turns out, it looks like if you install the Java 7 JRE (not the JDK) it somehow invalidates the Java 6 JDK that may already be on your system. So I could see the Java 6 jdk, and eclipse could find it, but the Force.com bits wouldn't work.
So, if you'd made that same mistake, you may need to tell eclipse that there's a new JDK on your system.
Go to Eclipse->Preferences. IN the preference page use the quick find to search for "Java", then scroll the left panel to "Installed JRE's"
On the right, click "Search" and hopefully, eclipse will find your new JDK / JRE installation. Check the new one as the default, and restart eclipse.
That's how I did it, anyway.
I follow the post flog as the solution and I still not see the force.com perspective.
the Force.com perspective does not appear on OSX. Even After installing JDK 7 and modifying JRE install in Eclipse.
Is anything else to change to have that working?
The issue is the same my mac is OSx 10.10 Yosemite which accepts only java se 7 or higher so i downloaded java se 8 and also installed eclipse luna 64 bit coz eclipse kepler and helios i tried to install they need java se6 not se8 so further i tried to install force.com plugin which installed successfully as i can check from about eclipse>installation details> force.com ide v31 is installed but when i check from perspective it doesn't show up. please help me to resolve this issue asap...Appreciate your help!
In summary, this is what worked for me:
Adding a reference to the jdk into the eclipse.ini did the trick for me (see below) to force Eclipse to use the jdk when starting up. For some reason, even though I selected the appropriate JDK as stated by Mike DelGaudio's solution, force.com perspective still wasn't available. The key here is to make sure you use a JDK for Eclipse.
Detailed steps I took, which worked:
1. Close Eclipse
2. Open Terminal and execute the following on the shell:
/usr/libexec/java_home
You will get something like (this maybe different depending on which JDK version you installed - but JDK 7 worked for me):
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home
3. Edit the eclipse.ini and point to the appropriate JDK path from step 2.
Instructions on how to edit eclipse.ini here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#-vm_value:_Mac_OS_X_Example
For me, I added the following to the end of my eclipse.ini file:
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
4. Install Force.com IDE as per normal (I installed version 31)
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My eclipse.ini looked like the following (don't copy and paste the whole thing - only pay attention to the last two lines starting with -vm:
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-startup
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar
--launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.200.v20120913-144807
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Dhelp.lucene.tokenizer=standard
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java