Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.

[Chris Woods]

I'm somewhat amazed that out of the nearly dozen or so responses, not a 
single one was even close to correct.

You want to create an environment variable called "JAVA_HOME" that 
references the base directory of the installation of your JRE or JDK. 
For example, on my machine, I've got Sun's JDK 1.5.0_05 in 
/usr/local/java/jdk1.5_05. In my .profile ($HOME/.profile) I've put the 
following two lines:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/java/jdk1.5_05"
export JAVA_HOME

Easy as pie. If you just want to set it temporarily for your current shell:

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/java/jdk1.5_05"

HTH,
Chris

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