I recently read in a book on a Java-based technology that one can determine if the JDK is installed by running java -version and looking for the the Strings “Client” or “Server” in the output of the ...

JAVA_HOME is an operating system (OS) environment variable which can optionally be set after either the Java Development Kit (JDK) or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. The JAVA_HOME ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Hi all, John discovered that our instructions on the Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) install was not following the de-facto standards. In short the location of where you install the JDK has been altered ...