I am trying to run Eclipse WebSphere Developer Tools with a local WebSphere 8.0.x installation. I also installed IBM's WebSphere Dev server and am having trouble successfully starting each server.
This is because the instructions say that the eclipse.ini should be updated to point to the IBM/WAS/AppServer/jre so that they match up. If you do not do this, the server will start but will spin at 100% because Eclipse can't get confirmation it started correctly. Eclipse warns you about not having the Eclipse JRE match the server JRE version.
I am using Eclipse Oxygen, which is Java 1.8. I installed WebSphere Developer Tools 8.0.x. WAS 8 is java 1.6, as such the server JRE/JDK is 1.6. Why would they make this tool for Eclipse Mars, Neon, Oxygen if you can't ever complete their instructions and make the Eclipse JRE align with the server JRE? Is there a way to get around this? I am wondering what I missed.
Eclipse Oxygen only supports Java 8 and above. You can get the JDK 8 from WebSphere Application Server v9 to run WDT in Oxygen. If you can point me to the instructions that you were following, we can review (and update if needed) to make sure the instructions are clear.