Windows 7 64-Bit and Eclipse Issue

This week I ran into issues setting up a java development environment on Windows 7 64-bit. I attempted to use my company’s image which includes: 1) 32-bit JDK 2) Eclipse Galileo (32 bit) 3) Subcliplse plugin 4) The Maven plugin, m2eclipse.

Everything seemed to be going well until I tried to install the plugins…and received “An error occurred while uninstalling”. I dorked around for a bit trying to get it to work but was unsuccessful.

Realizing my OS was different (Windows 7 64-bit), I started over and went full blown 64-bit:

1. Install JDK 6 for Windows 64 bit (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html)
2. Install Eclipse IDE for Jave EE Developers – Windows 64 bit (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/)
3. Within Ecliplse install the m2Eclipse plugin (http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e)
4. Within Ecliplse install the Subclipse plugin (http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x)
5. Within Ecliplse install Maven Extras (http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras) to integrate with SVN in eclipse.
6. Install the 64-bit version of SlikSvn (http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download): Subclipse doesn’t natively support a 64-bit version of JavaHL so a separate install is needed.

With these alternate downloads things so far are working great!