I've an old machine running Windows XP 32.
Because Oracle dropped support for WXP 32 bits, I've manually installed the jdk following the awesome answer here:
installing JDK8 on Windows XP - advapi32.dll error
I've however not added it yet to the JAVA_PATH, which is set to jdk 6. I don't know if it would harm or not to add it as well, but I want to be conservative here because a lot of programs in this machine need jdk 6. I don't want to break anything working now.
I'd like to toy around in eclipse to test the new Java 8 features. I've manually added the new jre 8 in the "Installed JREs" section under window -> preferences. In the compiler combo, the highest level available is 1.7 (installed jdk7 some time ago, this time using the official installer, but I still keep java 6 as the default in the system). I don't see any option to add the new level.
Consequently, when creating a new project using the new JRE, a warning is shown saying:
The current workspace uses a 1.4 JRE with compiler compliance level 1.6. This is not recommended and either the JRE or the compiler compliance level should be changed.
Seems a problem derived from the manual installation of the JDK.
I'm using Eclipse Kepler v4.3.1, but I have also tested this in older 3.x install with identical results.
Any help will be appreciated.
