I had Java SE (version 8) installed on my computer (Windows 10). Now, I have downloaded version 13. I have also added the path
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
in Environment Variables -> System Variables -> Path
But still when I write
java -version
on cmd, I get the path of the older version.
java version "1.8.0_231"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_231-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.231-b11, mixed mode)
Upon writing
where java
I got the following result
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin\java.exe
In the environment variables ->
I get the following relevant paths:
C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
Note: doesn't have the path of Java 8 as I deleted it.
Interestingly, I am still able to run the Java code.
I am confused now..
Move C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin to the top in the list of environment variables. Then, open a new command prompt and execute java -version.
If you don’t explicitly add the directory to your PATH environment variable, you get the java binary installed at system level.
This was typically done by the browser java plugin installer, which is not used anymore so you get to keep the old version. I would suggest uninstalling it.
I have an application emSignerGSTN in my windows 10 machine. But while trying to run the application, I get the error:
This application requires a jre 1.6.0
I have openjdk installation of Azul Zulu :
$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_222"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.40.0.25-CA-win64) (build 1.8.0_222-b10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Zulu 8.40.0.25-CA-win64) (build 25.222-b10, mixed mode)
$ where java
C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu-8\bin\java.exe
The oracle java installation makes the application work. But I don't want to install it. How can i solve this?
I resolved the problem. I have a JRE 1.8.0 installed in the machine. The problem is that the application doesn't look into that path. Java installation path is:
C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu-8\bin\java.exe
Copy the JRE folder of zulu jdk C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu-8\jre to emSigner installation path as C:\Program Files (x86)\eMudhra Limited\emSigner\emSigner\jre.
When running the application, emSigner will look for the JRE first in its installation path. Since it exists now, there is no need to look for an oracle JRE installation. Thus further errors are not shown.
I've always used Google2SRT, a light software to download subtitles from Youtube. Now it no longer works: "Startup Error: Failed to find Java VM".
I have Java installed, I have Netbeans installed and working, I have never had any Java related issues.
I've tried reinstalling everything, I've tried creating a JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME System variable and pointing it to "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_191" according to this tutorial: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/setting-the-java_home-variable-in-windows-8895.html
It felt odd because I didn't even had this environment variable previously. I have no idea what's the issue.
I've tried uninstalling Netbeans and other programming tools as well.
I'm on Windows 7 x64.
java -debug -version > "%userprofile%\desktop\javaDebug.log" 2>&1 returns:
java version "1.8.0_191"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_191-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)
I have also tried setting maximum heap size in _JAVA_OPTIONS
System Variables
Just go to the install dir (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Google2SRT), open a cmd.exe, cd to the above folder and type java -jar Google2SRT.jar. You don't need the .exe
This should work, provided you have java installed. Check by typing java -version in the cmd.
I am getiing java versions different with java command and javac command
java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode, sharing)
javac -version
javac -version
javac 1.6.0_18
where java
C:\Windows\System32\java.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\bin\java.exe
path is set to 1.6 but it is picking 1.8
suggest me how to get this resolved.
This is cause by the extremely annoying habit of the Java installer to copy java.exe andjavaw.exe to C:\Windows\System32\java.exe when you choose to install the "public jre" (but because that's the JRE, of course no javac.exe is copied).
And because System32 comes early in the PATH java.exe from there will be used (and before the regular JDK installation will no be searched for java.exe). But as there is no javac.exe in the JRE, that in turn is used from your JDK.
The public JRE is only needed for the browser Java plugin. In 2014 I consider the Java plugin to be dead and (I think) Oracle should change the JDK installer to not install that automatically.
Actually I consider this behaviour a bug to be honest. No installer should copy files to system32
I'm in the situation where I've installed the JDK, but I can't run applets in browsers (I may not have installed the JRE).
However, when I install the JRE, it clobbers my JDK as the default runtime. This breaks pretty much everything (Eclipse, Ant) - as they require a server JVM.
There's no JAVA_HOME environment variable these days - it just seems to use some registry magic (setting the system path is of no use either). Previously, I've just uninstalled the JRE after I've used it to restore the JDK. This time I want to fix it properly.
This also manifests itself with the jre autoupdater - once upon a time, I had a working setup with the JDK and JRE, but it updated and bust everything.
This is a bit of a pain on Windows. Here's what I do.
Install latest Sun JDK, e.g. 6u11, in path like c:\install\jdk\sun\6u11, then let the installer install public JRE in the default place (c:\program files\blah). This will setup your default JRE for the majority of things.
Install older JDKs as necessary, like 5u18 in c:\install\jdk\sun\5u18, but don't install the public JREs.
When in development, I have a little batch file that I use to setup a command prompt for each JDK version. Essentially just set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk\sun\JDK_DESIRED and then set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%. This will put the desired JDK first in the path and any secondary tools like Ant or Maven can use the JAVA_HOME variable.
The path is important because most public JRE installs put a linked executable at c:\WINDOWS\System32\java.exe, which usually overrides most other settings.
I have patched the behaviour of my eclipse startup shortcut in the properties dialogue
from
"E:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe"
to
"E:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" -vm "E:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_30\bin"
as described in the Eclipse documentation
It is a patch only, as it depends on the shortcut to fix things...
The alternative is to set the parameter permanently in the eclipse initialisation file.
I just had that problem (Java 1.8 vs. Java 9 on Windows 7) and my findings are:
short version
default seems to be (because of Path entry)
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java -version
select the version you want (test, use tab completing in cmd, not sure what those numbers represent), I had 2 options, see longer version for details
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_[tab]
remove junction/link and link to your version (the one ending with 181743567 in my case for Java 8)
rmdir javapath
mklink /D javapath javapath_target_181743567
longer version:
Reinstall Java 1.8 after Java 9 didn't work. The sequence of installations was jdk1.8.0_74, jdk-9.0.4 and attempt to make Java 8 default with jdk1.8.0_162...
After jdk1.8.0_162 installation I still have
java -version
java version "9.0.4"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9.0.4+11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9.0.4+11, mixed mode)
What I see in path is
Path=...;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;...
So I checked what is that and I found it is a junction (link)
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java>dir
Volume in drive C is OSDisk
Volume Serial Number is DA2F-C2CC
Directory of c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java
2018-02-07 17:06 <DIR> .
2018-02-07 17:06 <DIR> ..
2018-02-08 17:08 <DIR> .oracle_jre_usage
2017-08-22 11:04 <DIR> installcache
2018-02-08 17:08 <DIR> installcache_x64
2018-02-07 17:06 <JUNCTION> javapath [C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_185258831]
2018-02-07 17:06 <DIR> javapath_target_181743567
2018-02-07 17:06 <DIR> javapath_target_185258831
Those hashes doesn't ring a bell, but when I checked
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_181743567>.\java -version
java version "1.8.0_162"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_162-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.162-b12, mixed mode)
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath_target_185258831>.\java -version
java version "9.0.4"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 9.0.4+11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 9.0.4+11, mixed mode)
so to make Java 8 default again I had to delete the link as described here
rmdir javapath
and recreate with Java I wanted
mklink /D javapath javapath_target_181743567
tested:
c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java>java -version
java version "1.8.0_162"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_162-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.162-b12, mixed mode)
** update (Java 10) **
With Java 10 it is similar, only javapath is in c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\ which is strange as I installed 64-bit IMHO
.\java -version
java version "10.0.2" 2018-07-17
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10.0.2+13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10.0.2+13, mixed mode)
After many attempts, I found the junction approach more convenient. This is very similar on how this problem is solved in linux.
Basically it consists of having a link between c:\tools\java\default and the actual version of java you want to use as default in your system.
How to set it:
Download junction and make sure to put it in your PATH
environment variable
Set your environment this way:
- PATH pointing to ONLY to this jre c:\tools\java\default\bin
- JAVA_HOME pointing to `c:\tools\java\default
Store all your jre-s in one folder like (if you do that in your Program FIles folder you may encounter some
C:\tools\Java\JRE_1.6
C:\tools\Java\JRE_1.7
C:\tools\Java\JRE_1.8
Open a command prompt and cd to C:\tools\Java\
Execute junction default JRE_1.6
This will create a junction (which is more or less like a symbolic link in linux) between C:\tools\java\default and C:\tools\java\JRE_1.6
In this way you will always have your default java in c:\tools\java\default.
If you then need to change your default java to the 1.8 version you just need to execute
junction -d default
junction default JRE_1.8
Then you can have batch files to do that without command prompt like
set_jdk8.bat
set_jdk7.bat
As suggested from #СӏаџԁеМаятіи
EDIT: From windows vista, you can use mklink /J default JRE_1.8
I simply install all the versions of JDK I need and the latest installed becomes default, so I just reinstall the one I want to be default if necessary.
I have several JDK (1.4, 1.5, 1.6) installed in C:\Java with their JREs. Then I let Sun update the public JRE in C:\Program Files\Java.
Lately there is an improvement, installing in jre6. Previously, there was a different folder per new version (1.5.0_4, 1.5.0_5, etc.), which was taking lot of space
an alterable way to run an .jar app is create an .bat cmd for it.
for example, you have jre10 and jre8 installed on your pc,and jre10 is your default jre.
but your jar is specified to work with jre8,following cmd will work:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_181\bin\java.exe" -jar JabRef-4.3.1.jar
Need to remove C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath from environment and replace by JAVA_HOME which is works fine for me
Stacked by this issue and have resolved it in 2020, in Windows 10. I'm using Java 8 RE and 14.1 JDK and it worked well until Eclipse upgrade to version 2020-09. After that I can't run Eclipse because it needed to use Java 11 or newer and it found only 8 version. It was because of order of environment variables of "Path":
I suppose C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath is path to link to installed JRE exe files (in my case Java 8) and the issue was resolved by move down this link after %JAVA_HOME%, what leads to Java 14.1/bin folder.
It seems that order of environment variables affects order of searched folders while executable file is requested.
Thanks for your comment or better explanation.