Registry Error: JAVA 1.7 instead of 1.6

Question

I got this error while installing Android Development bundle.

I have installed both JDK 1.6 and JDK 1.7 in my Windows 8 PC. I downloaded the ADT bundle and opened the eclipse.exe bundle and got this error.

Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion'

has value '1.5', but '1.7' is required.
Error: could not find java.dll
Error: Could not find Java SE Runtime Environment.

I went to the registry error and followed the following procedure and it worked.

• In the START menu type "regedit" to open the Registry (be careful doing this)
• Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" on the left-hand side registry explorer/tree menu
• Click "SOFTWARE" within the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" registries
• Click "JavaSoft" within the "SOFTWARE" registries
• Click "Java Runtime Environment" within the "JavaSoft" list of registries
• Highlight "CurrentVersion" (should see it in the main registry key explorer window on the right)
• Change version to "1.7"

My doubt is what version of Java is Eclipse using. If I want to use the Java version 6.

How to resolve this error?

Answer 1

You could edit the eclipse.ini file. Before -vmargs (maybe best on top of the file) you could insert -vm C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6...\bin\javaw.exe (the path to your preferred JRE or JDK).

Then Eclipse uses that.

Answer 2

About your question on version of JAVA to use,

You need to use JDK 1.6. Check the System requirements in the link below. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Do not forget to add Java(bin of jdk and jre) to the Windows path

Answer 3

You might have 2 version of jdk installed in your system.