Play can't find the JAVA_HOME path on Windows 7-64bit

[Marcos Arroyo]

I just installed jre6, jdk1.6, and I downloaded play. I set play to
the Path variable and I can run it through the command prompt from any
directoy. Except that it can't find java. I get the following error
"Could not execute the java executable, please make sure the JAVA_HOME
environment variable is set properly (the java executable should
reside at JAVA_HOME/bin/java)."

So I made the JAVA_HOME environment variable and I added the directory
to the Path variable and it still can't find it

For the Path I added this to the end
;C:\Program Files\Java\jre6;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23

For the JAVA_HOME variable I put
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23

I've also tried
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin\java
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\java

but none of them seem to work. I even added all these variations to
the Path variable and it still doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
Please help! I need to use Play! for a class

[Olivier Refalo]

Did you get JDK 32 or 64 bit ?

[Olivier Refalo]

JAVA_HOME typically points to the jdk install folder , so it would be C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23 

SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23 

you can try echo %JAVA_HOME% to validate it

[Webiyo]

I too had encountered the same problem :)

Add JAVA_HOME as a system wide environment variable as suggested and put java home path as value.
Make sure that you enter custom path for jdk/jre while performing the installation.( Defalu path in the installer is a bit longer )

For example c:\jdk6
It helps when you browse through the directories on commnd prompt :)