Eclipse IDE installer requires JRE 11?

Thanks Bruce,

I may have JRE and JDK wrong - I’m new to Java.

From what I’ve read here Any working tutorial for binding development?, and elsewhere OH2 is still recommended over OH3 because it is more stable and better documented. Assuming that is the case, is there a path to get a version of Eclipse IDE running on Java 8? It seems that it was still working for the folks in that thread as of August this year.

Thanks,
Phil