JAVA_HOME: stores location of the JDK’s installation directory. When you install development tools, they will first check for the JAVA_HOME variable. If found, they will stick with it. If not, they may ask you to manually specify the location where JRE/JDK is installed.
We can change the JRE for Tomcat by setting the JRE_HOME variable in a script file called setenv.bat (on Windows) or setenv.sh (on *nix). This file does not exist by default, so create such file and place it under CATALINA_BASE\bin directory (CATALINA_BASE is the Tomcat installation directory).
In this article, I will guide you how to change JDK/JRE that runs Eclipse IDE, on Windows operating system. First, you need to know exactly which version of Java on which Eclipse is running.
Java development Kit (JDK) is required to create, develop, build and run Java applications. In this post, I’d like to share with you guys how to setup JDK version 21 on Windows operating system, with a distribution from Oracle corporation (Oracle JDK).
In this article, I will show you how to setup OpenJDK 17 on Windows operating system. You know, OpenJDK is a production-ready, open-source distribution of Java Development Kit (JDK).
To get started to develop or run Java applications, a Java Development Kit (JDK) is required. And OpenJDK is an open-source and production-ready distribution of JDK. So in this article, I’d like to share how to setup OpenJDK version 21 on Windows operating system, step by step.
In this post, I will guide you through the steps to install OpenJDK, an open-source distribution of the JDK, for Java version 23 on the Windows operating system.
This post will guide you the steps to set up Java development environment on Windows operating system, by downloading and installing OpenJDK 22 for Java version 22.
You know, by default, NetBeans IDE sticks with the JDK it found at the time of installation, by storing the path to JDK home in a configuration file called netbeans.conf.