Questions tagged [java-home]

JAVA_HOME is an environment variable which indicates the directory where the Java Development Kit (JDK) software is installed.

Setting JAVA_HOME depends on the operating system:

UNIX

• Korn and bash shells:

  export JAVA_HOME=jdk-install-dir
  
  export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  

• Bourne shell:

  JAVA_HOME=jdk-install-dir
  
  export JAVA_HOME
  
  PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  
  export PATH
  

• C shell:

  setenv JAVA_HOME jdk-install-dir
  
  setenv PATH $JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  
  export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
  

Windows

1. Right click My Computer > Properties > Advanced system settings
2. On the Advanced tab, select Environment Variables..., and then add/edit JAVA_HOME to point to where the JDK software is located, for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60.

or

1. Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts using Explorer
2. Click on Change my environment variables
3. Add/edit the JAVA_HOME variable to point to where the JDK software is located