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How do you check the current version of eclipse that I am currently running? Is it possible to tell if it is aqua or carbon (I am running Mac OS X 10.5)?
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Look at Help -> About Eclipse IDE. This will tell which product and version thereof that you have installed.
Generally Java 8 works the best for most/all versions of Eclipse, including older ones. But if you want to use newer language/library features for Java development and need a newer version of Java for that purpose then newer versions should work with 2019-03 as well.
Current releases of Eclipse require Java 11 JRE/JDK or newer.
My eclipse has a file .eclipseproduct in its' main folder which contains:
name=Eclipse Platform id=org.eclipse.platform version=3.4.0 Perhaps that might help?
Edit: Couldn't find any useful command-line switch for that task.
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In case anyone has installed one of the 'bundled' versions of Eclipse (e.g. bundled with EE development tools as below) and is still looking, the steps below will show the 'bundled' version and the platform version (and other component versions also):
First select 'About Eclipse' from the Eclipse menu:
then select 'Installation details from the box below' 
Next click on the triangle against 'Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers' below to expand it: 
And now you should be able to read the version numbers, as below: 
By now of course you may be wondering if everything else in the IDE is this obscure...
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