The RCP downloads are meant as a base for building Eclipse RCP applications. As such, they do not include an application of their own and simply running the RCP install will do nothing. This build requires a 64-bit JVM, and will not run with a 32-bit JVM. You can, for example, use the Sun 64-bit 1.5 JVM for AMD64. Note that the Sun 1.4.2 JVM for AMD64 is 32-bit and therefore cannot be used to run this build.