Whilst having a discussion with a colleague about running Eclipse on macOS Big Sur 11.6 with Java 8, I wanted to check whether the latest Eclipse 2021-09 would work with Java 8 ( aka Java 1.8.0_251 ).
So I "wrote" a Hello World to check: -
hello.java
public class hello {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Prints "Hello, World" to the terminal window.
System.out.println("Hello, World");
String version = System.getProperty("java.version").toString();
System.out.println("JVM version is " + version);
}
}
// Prints "Hello, World" to the terminal window.
System.out.println("Hello, World");
String version = System.getProperty("java.version").toString();
System.out.println("JVM version is " + version);
}
}
I ran this in Eclipse: -
having also confirmed that I could run it locally: -
java -cp ~/eclipse-workspace/HelloWorld/bin/ hello
Hello, World
JVM version is 1.8.0_251