JRE 8u73 for Mac. I'm getting this error trying to launch the Eclipse IDE. Googling led to some people insisting you absolutely have to use the JDK, others are adamant that the IDE will run just fine with the JRE. Some claim that the Java for Mac is only for a browser plugin, even though I have been able to launch every other Java application with it. And all of them disagree about exactly how this issue should be resolved... every thread is a "Do X!" "Oh, great, that worked for me!" "Didn't work for me" "OK, try Y" "Nope, didn't work" "None of that works for me, I did Z while standing on my head and everything's peachy now!"
How do I resolve this?