Comments on: Setting JAVA_HOME on Mac OS X 10.5

By: Joseph Toman

Joseph Toman — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:23:39 +0000

I figured out the
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
myself, but thanks for the confirmation .

By: Kanisk

Kanisk — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:20 +0000

Thanks for this post, It removed my confusion.

By: Murali

Murali — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:13:41 +0000

Thanks alot, it helped me alot

By: Mike Swingler

Mike Swingler — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:25:21 +0000

Don’t hardcode a path to /Library/Java/Home. Instead you should use:
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
This will dynamically pick the top JVM from list in the Java Preferences app.

By: Vamshi

Vamshi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:06:20 +0000

Very Helpful

Thanks alot.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:39:13 +0000

Thanks to both of you (you and Sean) for this. I needed to get Jetty up and running, and my lack of knowledge about the java environment was making me fail on this seemingly innocuous little thing… Thanks again!

By: Sean M. Brown

Sean M. Brown — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:04 +0000

End of year thanks: this post is the number one referring link (non-search) to my blog.