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Sorry if this is too naive, but shouldn't it be something like eclipse.exe?

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    See this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1997718/difference-between-java-exe-and-javaw-exe – Wundwin Born Aug 27 '14 at 10:04
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    Is this helps ? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8194713/difference-between-java-javaw-javaws/8194750#8194750 – Suresh Atta Aug 27 '14 at 10:05
  • Actually it is a good question, I haven't thought about it myself. You have an eclipse.exe binary so why doesn't the process show up as eclipse.exe then? My best guess is that the eclipse.exe is only a smaller bootstrapping executable which forks the actual Java process (by running javaw.exe) and then terminates. – Gimby Aug 27 '14 at 10:47

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The links provided in the comments are quite informative, but if you still aren't able to understand why Eclipse shows as javaw.exe in the Task Manager, then refer to this answer. (Excerpt below)

javaw: (java windowed) Application executor not associated with console. So no display of output/errors. Can be used to silently push the output/errors to text files. Mostly used to launch GUI based applications.

Eclipse is a GUI based development tool and hence the process associated with Eclipse reads javaw.exe in Task Manager.

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If you need it to be run as eclipse.exe, you can pass in the following parameter in your eclipse configuration file: -vm <your java installation folder>\bin\client\jvm.dll

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  • Or `\bin` according to the reference http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html and https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini – mortalis Jul 20 '17 at 13:52
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Eclipse is a program, which runs upon Java Virtual Machine. javaw.exe is a process, corresponding to JVM.

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