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Jabir
Jabir

Reputation: 2886

JAVA_HOME set but not taking effect

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As depicted in above image java home is set and is being echoed but when i check for version it gives me latest version. Already restarted the command prompt after setting env variable. OS is Windows 7

Update:

Following is the Path.

..ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;;%JAVA_HOME%/bin;

Upvotes: 8

Views: 28691

Answers (6)

Nilesh Kumar
Nilesh Kumar

Reputation: 199

Windows has this peculiar way of considering JAVA version. By default there is a java folder where jre is placed by windows. It is under C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_351.

And when you will read your Environment variable in windows 10 onward, you will notice there is a path entry "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath". This messes up with Custom java home that we declare. To fix this just move up the "%JAVA_HOME%/bin" as a first entry in path variable.

Upvotes: 2

catch32
catch32

Reputation: 18612

I had the same trouble and I solved it with the following steps:

You need the correct environment variables.

To be exactly correct, you only need to set the Path variable.

You need to find where you add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the path.

Put it at first place in the Path variable:

%JAVA_HOME%\bin;...

where ... represents all other values of Path.

I assume that JAVA_HOME is defined as a variable and had the correct value.

After this reopen console and check:

java -version

Upvotes: 23

Sachin Gupta
Sachin Gupta

Reputation: 8388

I think in your path variable you have hardcoded the path to bin folder. it should always be %JAVA_HOME%/bin.

So that it can pick path from JAVA_HOME variable and you don't need to change both the variables every time.

Upvotes: 0

Aakash
Aakash

Reputation: 2119

Check your PATH environment variable also. Your system is referring to latest Java installation through PATH variable.

Upvotes: 0

Jigar Joshi
Jigar Joshi

Reputation: 240966

JAVA_HOME is environment variable that various application reads in their launcher script

when you invoke java it looks up for all paths specified in your env variable named PATH and wherever the first match is it gets picked up

so if you like command prompt to refer to jdk 6's Java append the path to PATH

Upvotes: 2

Prasad Kharkar
Prasad Kharkar

Reputation: 13566

You need to add the path to jJAVA_HOME%/bin directory in the path variable too. java command is located in %JAVA_HOME%/bin

Upvotes: 0

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