Is it possible to build/use eclipse-devel with openjdk7?

[Jimmy]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:11:07PM +0300, arrowdodger wrote:
> Hi. I have openjdk7 installed, but when i tried to build eclipse-devel
> port, it started to build openjdk6.
> I've found following line in Makefile:
> 
> > JAVA_VERSION=  1.6
> 
> 
> So, is it possible to use openjdk7 with eclipse?
> 
> Another question - is there a way to build eclipse without gecko/libxul?
> 
> And the last one - why "eclipse-devel" port corresponds for current stable
> version of Eclipse (3.7.0) while "eclipse" one is for previous eclipse
> release?
> 
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Can't build eclipse port with openjdk7, but it does appear to run just fine with it.

Eclipse needs *some* sort of gecko provider for doing things like popping up
the Javadoc when you hover over a function name in a Java file, and crashes
without a working gecko part, as I found out playing around with the eclipse-devel
port a while ago.  Freebsd only supports libxul as a gecko provider, not Mozilla or
FireFox like Linux does.

As for the eclipse versioning, you will find many Freebsd ports where the Freebsd
ported "main" version is lagging behind what's available for other systems.  The "-devel"
port that you might find for some software packages is a un-stable port of a newer
release that is being worked on to get the porting bugs worked out. Feel free to build
and run those (at your own risk, of course) and report any problems.

Jimmy