title: Why am I getting the error "Obtained an unexpected kind of VM install" in Mulesoft's Anyponit Studio (Eclipse)?
body: <p>Why does everything around Java need to be so ____ complicated? I am trying to run applications - that run on other people's machines - and getting the error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Obtained an unexpected kind of VM install: null</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Has anyone seen anything like this?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.mulesoft.com/platform/studio" rel="nofollow">Anypoint Studio</a> is a product provided by Mulesoft and based on Eclipse.</p>
  
  <p>Mac OS X Yosemite</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ java -version
  java version "1.7.0_79"
  Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_79-b15)
  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode)
  
  $ mvn -version
  Apache Maven 3.3.3 (7994120775791599e205a5524ec3e0dfe41d4a06; 2015-04-22T07:57:37-04:00)
  Maven home: /Users/jkalis/Maven/apache-maven-3.3.3
  Java version: 1.7.0_79, vendor: Oracle Corporation
  Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
  OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.10.3", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
  </code></pre>