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For the Mac OS 10.6 or above as I mentioned before it is important to add the java home in your bash profile. Once you execute the command on the terminal window, to verify if the path is properly set or not run the following command on the terminal window echo $ JAVAHOME. Jul 14, 2020 Java manual download page. Get the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Windows, Mac, Solaris, and Linux. How to set JAVAHOME to JDK 1.7 in MAC OS X 10.10 Yosemite If you have installed Oracle JDK 1.6 then you can follow these steps to point JAVAHOME environment variable to that JDK: 1) Open a terminal window 2) Open /.bashprofile file and add below line: export JAVAHOME= '$(/usr/libexec/javahome -v 1.7)'. Jun 01, 2017 How to use /usr/libexec/javahome on macOS to: find all installed JDKs; setJAVAHOME; execute Java commands using a specific JDK version; create a bash profile to enable setting of the JDK version.

If you do not already have the JDK software installed or ifthe JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set,the GlassFish ESB installation will not be successful. The followingtasks provide the information you need to install the JDK softwareand set JAVA_HOME on UNIX or Windows systems.

To find out which JDK versions are supported for the platformyou are using, see JDK and JAVA_HOME in Planning for GlassFish ESB Installation.

Caution –

The GlassFish ESB Installer does not support JDK release1.6.0_04 in the 64–bit version on the Solaris SPARC or AMD 64–bitenvironments.

To Install the JDK Softwareand Set JAVA_HOME on a UNIX System

  1. To install the JDK software, do the following:

    1. Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

    2. Select the appropriate JDK version and click Download.

      The JDK software is installed on your computer in the defaultlocation; for example, at /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0_02.You can change this location.

  2. To set JAVA_HOME, do one of the following:

    • For Korn and bash shells, run the followingcommands:

      export JAVA_HOME=jdk-install-dir

      export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

    • For the bourne shell, run the following commands:

      JAVA_HOME=jdk-install-dir

      export JAVA_HOME

      PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

      export PATH

    • For the C shell, run the following commands:

      setenv JAVA_HOME jdk-install-dir

      setenv PATH $JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

      export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

  3. Change the permissions to enable you to run the GlassFishESB Installer by running the following command:

    chmod755 JavaCAPS.bin

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To Install the JDK Softwareand Set JAVA_HOME on a Windows System

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  1. To install the JDK software, do the following:

    1. Go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

    2. Select the appropriate JDK software and click Download.

      The JDK software is installed on your computer in the defaultlocation; for example, at C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_02.You can move the JDK software to another location.

  2. To set JAVA_HOME, do the following:

    1. Right click My Computer and select Properties.

    2. On the Advanced tab, select Environment Variables, andthen edit JAVA_HOME to point to where the JDK softwareis located, for example, C:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_02.

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As long as I’ve been using a Mac I always understood that if you needed to set $JAVA_HOME for any program, it should be set to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK.

On my machine this points to the 1.6 JDK:

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This was a bit surprising to me since I’ve actually got Java 7 installed on the machine as well so I’d assumed the symlink would have been changed:

Andres and I were looking at something around this yesterday and wanted to set $JAVA_HOME to the location of the 1.7 JDK on the system if it had been installed.

We eventually came across the following article which explains that you can use the /usr/libexec/java_homecommand line tool to do this.

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For example, if we want to find where the 1.7 JDK is we could run the following:

And if we want 1.6 the following does the trick:

We can also list all the JVMs installed on the machine:

I’m not sure how I’ve never come across this command before but it seems pretty neat.

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