JAVA_HOME on Mac Mavericks

[Jeff Schmitz]

Hello,

   Short version: What do you set JAVA_HOME to when configuring Jenkins on a Mac Mavericks machine with a newly installed Java 1.8 from Oracle?    

I'm a newbie to Jenkins and am trying to get an initial setup running per the Jenkins Definitive Guide book.  I recently installed the latest Java from Oracle (1.8) on a Mavericks machine that didn't have Java installed.  Now I can't figure out what to set JAVA_HOME to when configuring Jenkins.  I tried /usr/libexec/java_home but Jenkins doesn't like that, it says it's not a directory.  I think tried what /usr/libexec/java_home points to but Jenkins said it doesn't look like a java distribution.  

Thanks!

Jeff

[Stephen Connolly]

FYI right now most versions of Jenkins bomb out on java 1.8 (can't save config)

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[Jeffrey Schmitz]

Bummer, and there seems no easy way to remove Java 8 from a Mac once installed.

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[alex ouzounis]

To have your Mac pickup the latest Java installed you can do:

#export JAVA_HOME

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`

PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/java

You can find more information about this utility here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/java_home.1.html

Alex