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If running Servoy Developer on OSX and there is a need to run Java 7 (for example for JavaFX integration ), some extra steps are required, as due to a bug in Eclipse (on which Servoy Developer is based), the process of running Servoy Developer on Java 7 is not as straight forward.

To setup Servoy Developer on OSX to work with Java 7 (assuming Java 7 is already installed) are the following:

1) Navigate to /path/to/servoy/developer/servoy.app/Contents/ and edit the Info.plist file:
* go to the part where it says something like 'to use a specific Java version (instead of the platform's default) uncomment one of the following options:'
* here add a line as (with the path to your Java 1.7 install): '<string>-vm</string><string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java</string>'
2) Navigate to /path/to/servoy/developer/servoy.app/Contents/MacOS/ and edit the servoy.ini file:
* above the '-vmargs' line, add two lines, as follows, but corresponding to your Java 1.7 install: -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
3) In this same directory (.../developer/servoy.app/Contents/MacOS/) create a script called servoy.sh, which contains the following text:
#!/bin/sh
#
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home
LAUNCHER_JAR=../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0.v20110502.jar
LAUNCHER_LIB=../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx.x86_64_1.1.101.v20120109-1504
java \
-showversion \
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m \
-Xms40m \
-Xmx512m \
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/servoy.icns \
-XX:+UseParallelGC \
-XstartOnFirstThread \
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts \
-Dnativeswing.interface.inprocess.useExternalSWTDisplay=true \
-Dnativeswing.dependencies.checkVersions=false \
-Dsun.awt.disableMixing=true \
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 \
-jar $LAUNCHER_JAR \
--launcher.library $LAUNCHER_LIB
* make sure the JAVA_HOME points to your Java 1.7 install
* also make sure you can execute the script (maybe execute a 'chmod a+x servoy.sh', without the quotes)
4) Launch Servoy using this script, in order to have Developer use Java 1.7.
* here, just doublecheck that Developer runs with 1.7 (check Servoy Developer->About Servoy Developer->Installation Details->Configuration java.runtime.version for instance)
NOTE: the four steps above correspond to advice from https://www.servoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19253#p103941^{Image Removed}