I have multiple versions of Java installed on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. In order to install
Eclipse Java 2018-12
I have had to install the Java 11 JDK from the Oracle website. Despite setting JAVA_HOME and updating PATH in environment variables the only way to install and also run this version of Eclipse was to open a command prompt and
C:>set path=c:\program files\java\jdk11.0.1\bin
and then run Eclipse installer or installed instance.
The problem persists if I reboot my computer.
I want to be able to start eclipse by simply clicking on the desktop icon link.
The error I get when I try to run eclipse from the desktop link is:
Version 1.7.0_79 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version 1.8 out greater is required.
My C:\Program Files\Java\
contains folders
jdk1.0.7_79
jdk-11.0.1
jre7
I think I need all of these because I have some programs which I think retire java 7 so I don't think uninstalling java 7 is an option and don't think java 11 would replace it, or should I just get rid of java 7, is that what's causing the problem despite environment variables set correctly?
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks.
Add c:\program files\java\jdk11.0.1\bin to your Windows Environment PATH
The system was running C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe
I fixed it by adding the Java 11 bin directory at the beginning of the Path environment variable instead of at the end of the string, separated by a semicolon.
First set JAVA_HOME then update path in environmental, refer screenshots attached.
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I previously had Java 7 installed on my Windows PC. System environment variable also had location to it. I installed Java 10 without uninstalling 7 or changing the environment variable. Now when I go to CMD or Cygwin and enter Java -version it says Java 10.
I would think since I didn't change the environment variable that it would still be 7. How is Windows deciding what JDK to use?
Thanks!
Probably your JAVA_HOME or just PATH environment variables were changed.
Go to command line and do the following to check it:
> echo %JAVA_HOME%
For example, for me it gives back:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9.0.4
How is Windows deciding what JDK to use?
Windows is NOT making decisions on its own. If you get version 10 information when you run java -version, it is because Windows is finding the folder containing java.exe corresponding to the version 10 first in the paths pointed to by the PATH environment variable. If you have installed Java using an installer, the installer would update the PATH variable for you. Check your PATH variable and you will see the Java 10 folder appearing there first and then Java 7 folder.
If you are using a java ide , you might find the location in JRE configurations. for example in eclipse :
windows > preferences > Installed JREs
.
Your JAVA_HOME variable might still be set to JDK 7 directory, however the Java 10 installation may have inserted it's /bin directory to the PATH.
Check to ensure that java 10 isn't on the PATH before java 7, or hasn't overwritten it.
CMD etc. check the path for the binaries for commands like java-version.
I have multiple versions of Java installed in the environment(I know it is bad). I've set the JAVA_HOME to jdk 1_4 directory. This is not installed, but extracted from zip and placed it somewhere. We have java 1.8 JRE also installed in the system. I never set the path to this installed directory. Now i'm trying to run some ant script that depends on jdk 1_4. I get some exception saying that it is not able to find tools.jar in java1.8... .
My question is that when the path and java_home are set to jdk 14 why does the ant look for 1.8 version of java? I'm confused.
Update: I have looked up the duplicate issue.
Additional details: Java -version prints 1.8 with jdk 14 in the path and java_home. I uninstalled 1.8. reopened cmd tried java -version, now it errors out saying that it is not able to find java1.8 instead of trying to find the next java available in the path or java_home.
Error shown:
C:\Users\usrpao>java
Error: could not open `C:\Program Files\Java\jre8\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg'
I have multiple versions of Java installed in the environment(I know it is bad). I've set the JAVA_HOME to jdk 1_4 directory.
Not wrong at all. I have a similar setup because I have to switch between Java version.
First, install Java JDKs in the root of your drive. No spaces in the directory names. For example, C:\Java\Java-1.6-21 and C:\Java\Java-1.7-5.
In your Environment Variables section in your System Control Panel (under Advance), create an environment variable to point to each one of these Java Home directories. For example, JAVA_HOME_17 = C:\Java\Java-1.7.5 and JAVA_HOME_16 = C:\Java\Java-1.6-21. This should be a System Environment variable.
Create a JAVA_HOME environment variable that points to the Java version you want: JAVA_HOME = %JAVA_HOME_17%.
Now in the System PATH, prefix the PATH (the very first entry) with %JAVA_HOME%\bin.
When you open a console window, your default java and javac commands will be the correct Java version.
If you need to change a version, change the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the correct environment variable and open a new console window. Now that new Java will be in your path.
NOTE: It is vitally important that %JAVA_HOME%\bin is in the first part of your PATH before C:\Windows\System32. You don't want the java.exe that exists in that directory to be your default java.
You haven't specified the operating system, so:
on windows, java installs a java.exe in C:\Windows\system32, which is probably on the path before java_home, and so gets picked up
on Linux, various distributions that support multiple installed java versions will also have some symlink earlier on the path. Run 'which java' to determine where that symlink is
Multiple java versions in the system is the problem, I uninstalled all the java versions first. Restarted my machine. Path and java home points to the jdk 1.4. java -version now points to the version specified in the path. Thanks all.
I have researched this and none of the solutions that I have seen have fixed my error.
What is happening is I tried to install Java EE version got the above error and then found out that I must install Java SE first. So I installed Java SE and set the JAVA_HOME variable to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0 which is where I installed my JDK. I also put C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin in my PATH variable. Still not working. I also tried the JAVA_HOME variable with C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin and that didn't work. I also tried installing without the PATH variable being updated to where I put my JDK.
I'm really getting confused as to why this is happening. I've had Java before and I don't recall having this much trouble installing it.
PS I don't install from the command line I just click the download icon in Firefox and then click the download.
Try running the installer at your commandline and pass the path of the JRE instead of the JDK.
For Example:
java_ee_sdk7-windows.exe -j "C:\Program Files\Java\jre8"
I had the exact same problem and even downloading the version without JDK didn't help!
I simply installed it from the terminal with passing the JRE For Example:
java_ee_sdk7-windows.exe -j "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"
and it worked like a charm!
I had the same problem but an additional step was required in order to install using the command line. In the command window (on my Windows 10 laptop) I had to use:
cmd /d
to tell the cmd window to ignore registry AutoRun commands before the java installation executable would run. After using cmd /d, and changing to the directory where the .exe file was at, the following worked:
java_ee_sdk-6u4-jdk7-windows-x64.exe -j "%JAVA_HOME%"
Where JAVA_HOME is a system environment variable pointing to an existing JDK installation (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65).
Uninstall everything, all of it.
Then go to your Program Files folder (and (x86) folder if on a 64bit Windows) and physically remove any Java folders.
Reinstall Java SE and then the EE packages. Sometimes Windows appears to get a bit confused and you need to help it figure out what to do.
If you want to uninstall, go to the glassfish folder and open the command prompt, then type:
uninstall.exe -j <The path to your JRE>
These points may be helpful.
java EE SDK7 contains glassfish v4.0 and it compatible with JDK6 and JDK7.
java EE SDK8 contains glassfish v5.0, it compatible with only JDK7 and JDK8, not JDK 9 or beyond.
So environment variable JAVA_HOME has to point to the root directory of one of the mentioned JDK. and %JAVA_HOME%\bin should be added to environment variable path
Despite having followed all of the above, setup of java EE SDK7 gets error:
could not find the required version of the Java(TM;
as Bakudan and laf8 said,
open cmd using run, with /d /a options as followed.
cmd /d /a
and next run SDK7-setup with -j option like this command
sdk7.exe -j "%JAVA_HOME%"
note that %JAVA_HOME% enclosed BY ""
This was happening to me when I tried to run the Java EE installer. What I did, was to download from Oracle a Java EE version which didn't include the JDK, because it was already installed in my system. Problem solved!
Open regedit.
goto :HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\
set CurrentVersion to desired JDK version.
Check JavaHome and RuntimeLib path's for selected jdk version folder
Check JavaHome and RuntimeLib path's for selected jdk version folder
example: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7".
example:
JavaHome=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_79
RuntimeLib=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_79\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
Source: http://tech-read.com/2009/05/19/how-to-solve-error-could-not-find-java-runtime-2-environment-while-opening-an-ide/
I'm trying to install Java to use Eclipse (I followed all instructions to install Java and Eclipse) but my Eclipse is not starting due to some bad configuration I guess. I can't figure out why it's not working for me.
Eclipse Installation:
Extracted Eclipse at C:\eclipse
Created a shortcut to my desktop having target C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe
When I try to run Eclipse with this shortcut, I see following Eclipse splash screen for a second and it disappears. Eclipse does not start at all.
JAVA Installation:
Installed JDK at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10
Installed JRE at C:\Program Files\Java\jre7
Environment Variables Configuration:
JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10
PATH = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10\bin;
I tested my Java installation using the console and figured out this issue but I don't know how to fix it, and I guess this is causing Eclipse not to start.
Problem:
Go to Eclipse folder, locate eclipse.ini file, add following entry (before -vmargs if present):
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10\bin\javaw.exe
Save file and execute eclipse.exe.
please try to execute java from
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10\bin
i.e from the location where java is installed.
If it is successful, it means that the error lies somewhere in the classpath.
Also, this guy seems to have had the same problem as yours, check it out
Check that downloaded eclipse/JDK/JRE is compatible with your processor/OS architecture that is are they 32bit or 64bit?
Not able to run Appium {“message”:”A new session could not be created. (Original error: ‘java -version’ failed
I used Jdk 1.8 and JRE 1.8, Classpath is also set properly but I observed that Java command gives Error to initialization of VM (java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object)
Solution:
Uninstalled JRE and JDK completely
Installed JRE 1.8 then
Installed JDK 1.8
Set Classpath
check Java command works or not and its working
also able to execute the Appium program thru Eclipse Kepler Service Release 2 with JDK1.8 support
I had the same error in my case was when I needed to update jdk 7 to jdk 8, and my bad was just I installed jdk8 and I never installed jre8, only that, the error was solved immediately when I installed jre8.
Try placing the desired java directory in PATH before not needed java directories in your PATH.
I had the same issue on Windows 7 and I had to install both JDK and JRE and it's a success.
I faced the same problem,Eclipse splash screen for a second and it disappears.Then i noticed due to auto update of java there are two java version installed in my system. when i uninstalled one eclipse started working.
Thanks you..
I've observed this with STS and Eclipse and running java from CMD too on Windows 7/8/10 and following was my simple solution:
Actually, when I installed JDK 8 and STS/Eclipse it created one directory i.e. C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath with the following files:
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaw.exe
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaws.exe
Along with that, it appended Path Environment variable of System with this location C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
I've just removed above entry from Path Environment variable of System and added the location of the actual JDK instead i.e. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\bin
Now that is not necessary to add that -vm option in eclipse.ini or
SpringToolSuite4.ini either.
I just spent about 1 hour to figure out possible solution for the same error.
So what I did under MS WIndows 7 is following
Uninstall all Java packages of all versions.
Download last packages Java SE or JRE for your 32 or 64 Windows and install it.
First install JRE and second is Java SE.
Open text editor and paste this code.
public class Hello {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("test");
}
}
Save it like Hello.java
Go to Console and compile it like
javac Hello.java
Execute the code like
java Hello
Should be no error.
sometime you missed some file like I missed my one file rt.java
so better to check yours .........
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112\jre\lib
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I just spent about 1 hour to figure out possible solution for the
same error.
So what I did under MS WIndows 7 is following
Uninstall all Java packages of all versions.
Download last packages Java SE or JRE for your 32 or 64 Windows and
install it.
First install JRE and second is Java SE.
List item
Below error is thrown when there are multiple versions of jdk on your machine:
error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object
so for this Just use below:
set PATH="JDK bin path" in cmd
I had a same issuse, my file location was in D-drive, and then i shifted to the c-Drive and it works.
I get this error when I try to do anything with Java in command prompt:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment.3'
Error: could not find Java.dll
Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment
I did screw around with deleting Java directories and registry a few days ago. I restarted computer and java was still working fine, then i restarted it again today and now I get this error. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but that doesn't seem to work. I have the latest java JRE installed and the path set in the environment variables. Anyone have any clue how to fix this?
Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your Windows\System32 folder and if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64.
If you can't find them at these locations, try deleting them from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath.
You will find a folder named "Oracle" on ProgramData folder in your windows installed drive. Remove the folder. Hope it will work.
In my case my install drive is C and my path is C:\ProgramData\Oracle
I had a similar problem. I had installed JDK7 update 1 but couldn't use it (probably because I found a JRE6 that I deleted after installing JDK7). Uninstalling JDK7 was impossible. The solution was to add the JRE registry entries by hand.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment]
"CurrentVersion"="1.7"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7.0_01]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
You'll have to adjust the above to your own directories and version.
If this doesn't help, there's still JavaRa https://singularlabs.com/software/javara/ .
Delete these 3 files present in your local at path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
java.exe
javaw.exe
javaws.exe
This solved the issue for me :)
Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your system.
if you have an x32 system (Win XP 32 bits) Windows\System32 folder
if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64 folder
On Windows 10 I had just installed the JDK, and got these errors when checking the version. I had to delete all executable files starting with java (i.e. java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe) from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath. And then, once deleted, re-run the JDK installer, restart my terminal program and java -v works.
There are 3 locations to check
Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_xxx\JavaHome
Java Control Panel- Java tab - View - Path
Environment Variables - Path ($env:Path)
All 3 have to align (if you have multiple entires just remove the wrong ones) - thats all
I had the same:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment
Clearing Windows\SysWOW64 doesn't help for Win7
In my case it installing JDK8 offline helped (from link)
I would have tagged this as a comment but cant (dont have the rep) just wanted to thank Tilman. I was trying to get PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge) to work to no avail.
At launch it would produce an error stating that it could not find JRE 1.6.0. I Have both 32 and 64 bit versions and they check out fine at the java website in their respective browsers.
Tried uninstalling/reinstalling and rebooting repeatedly as well as using JavaRa. No such luck, still no go.
I looked in the registry after reading this post and there was no ...\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\ key so I added each with their respective string values pointing to my x86 version (PDFsam is a 32bit program). This got past the first problem but an error popped up about amd64 libraries suggesting the machine wanted to run the 64bit version. So I changed the paths to the 64bit JRE and PDFsam now works.
FYI - I got here by searching for Java registry keys after I was unable to launch javaw.exe from command prompt (even after adding the requisite paths to system path), making the aforementioned changes solved this as well.
I got this kind of error whe nI had JDK 1.7 before and I installed JAVA JDK 1.8 and pointed my JAVA_HOME and PATH variables to JAVA 1.8 version. When I try to find the java version I got this error. I restarted my machine, and it works . It seems to be we have to restart the machine after modifying the environment variables.
In case a virus scanner (like McAfee) is running, try:
Disable virus scanner
Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Reinstall Java (from Java.com)
Re-enable virus scanner
Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Install Java JRE 7 --> OFFLINE <--
Configure JAVA_HOME and Path = %JAVA_HOME%/bin;%PATH%
I have Windows 7. I got the same problem after installing: PyCharm.
I wasn't satisfied with PyCharm, so I decided to use Eclipse instead. This is when I discovered that things went wrong with my JDK. I used to have Java.9.x. So I decided to uninstall it and get the newer version (at my time it was Java.11.x. The same problem persisted.
I followed most of the steps mentioned above in the post like:
- Removing all java*.exe files,
- removing Java related entries from the registry.
- Cleaning-up all unnecessary Java folders. However nothing helped. I still had something in the system referring to a broken Java pathname.
What really brought remedy is the following:
- Uninstalled what ever version of JDK I had at the moment.
- Re-Installed the last JDK version I had before the problem took place
- Properly uninstall that version.
- Install whatever latest version of SDK. ..
That's it .. at this point everything returned to normal ... Except that Java.11.xx did not fix the system path automatically, I had to do it manually.
I followed multiple answers from above and got my issue resolved.
Issue:
Javac was on 13 from jdk but java was using 1.8 from jre so java threw incompatible runtime error
Fix:
Under Control Panel -> Programs: I uninstalled 1.8 (named Java 8 runtime) and DID NOT touch the other one (named Java (TM) SE Development Kit 13)
Deleted java.exe, javac.exe and javawc.exe files from:
a. C:\Windows\system32
b. C:\Windows\SysWOW64
c. C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
The environment variable JDK_HOME was pointing to 13 but JAVA_HOME was pointing to 1.8 so i pointed JAVA_HOME to also use 13 which was C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1
There was a Path variable under both User variables and system variables sections.
For the one in user variables section, i added the string %JDK_HOME% - which translated automatically to the physical path.
For the one under system variables, I deleted the path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath and added C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
All good now! Thanks to all the people who answered, you rock!
Make sure to delete java references from system32, SysWOW64, and delete javapath from ProgramData\Oracle\Java. It solves the issue
If you have "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" in your PATH, just make sure that the java bin path entries are present before this entry in your PATH.
I was facing the exact same issue, and I just moved the java jdk/jre bin path entries up in the list, above the oracle entry and it resolved my issue.