title: Changing required Java version for Eclipse
body: <p>My friend was having trouble running Eclipse Luna on his Mac running 10.6.8.  Whenever he ran Eclipse, it would display an error about requiring Java 7.  But, he couldn't install Java 7 due to his older OS.</p>
  
  <p>After running through some strategies for solving this issue online, I failed to find a solution.  So, I decided to open up the <code>eclipse.ini</code> file and changed this line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then, Eclipse ran.  It didn't run into an error yet.</p>
  
  <p>Is this an issue of Eclipse requiring a more recent Java version than needed, or will it start to run into problems at some point?</p>