Can Eclipse respect JAVA_HOME or path environment variable order?

In order to change the VM used by Ecipse, I have to change eclipse.ini, which is not convenient, because I have manually edit the file whenever I download a new copy. It's a pain if you have several machines to deploy.

Seems eclipse does not respect JAVA_HOME or path environment variable order. Etc,

1. It cannot load the JVM specified by JAVA_HOME.
2. It cannot load the JVM which is the first java.exe under path environment variable.

Is there workaround to make Eclipse to respect JAVA_HOME or path environment variable order? Or does Eclipse.exe accept some parameter to allow it to specify the JVM when it starts?

Thanks.

You are right. Eclipse does not respect JAVA_HOME environment variable which is mentioned as the follows from this:

If a JVM is installed in the eclipse/jre directory, Eclipse will use it; otherwise the launcher will consult the eclipse.ini file and the system path variable. Eclipse DOES NOT consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

But it does provide command line argument -vm to directly specify a JVM to run it. Different OS has the own value format , refer this for more details.

So in case of the MacOS , you can execute something like the follows to directly configure a JVM to start Eclipse :

eclipse -vm $JAVA_HOME/bin