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JAVA_HOMEonSolaris11
ByJeffTaylorOracleonNov23,2014
IrecentlyassertedthatitisnotagoodideatosettheJAVA_HOMEenvironmentvariableto/usr/javaon
Solaris11.Instead,I'drecommendsomethinglikethis:
$exportJAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0

Why?Becauseitisn'tclearwhere/usr/javawillpointtoovertime.Herearesomedetails.Workingwith
Solaris11:
$cat/etc/release
OracleSolaris11.2SPARC
Copyright(c)1983,2014,Oracleand/oritsaffiliates.Allrightsreserved.
Assembled23June2014
#pkginfoentire|grep//
FMRI:pkg://solaris/entire@0.5.11,5.110.175.2.0.0.42.0:20140624T193832Z

Atfirstglance,itseemsthat/usr/javaisasymboliclinktoJDK1.7:
$lsl/usr/java
lrwxrwxrwx1rootroot15Aug1808:02/usr/java>jdk/jdk1.7.0_60

Butoncloserexamination,itisn'tafullJDK.Noticethatjconsole,jps,etcaremissing:
$ls/usr/java/bin

ControlPaneljcontrolpack200rmiregistrytnameserv
javakeytoolpolicytoolservertoolunpack200
javawsorbdrmidsparcv9

InstallingthefullJDKiseasy:
$sudopkginstallacceptjdk7

AndnowtherestoftheexpectedJDKprogramsarepresent:
$ls/usr/java/bin
appletviewerjavahjmapnative2asciiservertool
extcheckjavapjpsorbdsparcv9
idljjcmdjrunscriptpack200tnameserv
jarjconsolejsadebugdpolicytoolunpack200
jarsignerjdbjstackrmicwsgen
javajdepsjstatrmidwsimport
javarmi.cgijhatjstatdrmiregistryxjc
javacjinfojvisualvmschemagen
javadocjjskeytoolserialver

Notethat/usr/javaisasymboliclink,toasecondsymboliclink,whichlinkstoadirectory:
$lsld/usr/java
lrwxrwxrwx1rootroot15Aug1808:02/usr/java>jdk/jdk1.7.0_60

Followingsymboliclink1:
$lsld/usr/jdk/jdk1.7.0_60
lrwxrwxrwx1rootroot18Aug1808:02/usr/jdk/jdk1.7.0_60>
instances/jdk1.7.0

Followingsymboliclink2:
$lsld/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/
drwxrxrx6rootbin7Aug1808:02/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/

Butifyouinstalljdk8,thelinkschange:
$lsld/usr/java
lrwxrwxrwx1rootroot15Nov2113:08/usr/java>jdk/jdk1.8.0_20
$lsld/usr/jdk/jdk1.8.0_20
lrwxrwxrwx1rootroot18Nov2113:08/usr/jdk/jdk1.8.0_20>
instances/jdk1.8.0

SoifyourJAVA_HOMEwassetto/usr/java,yourapplicationwouldstartusingJDK8.
$exportJAVA_HOME=/usr/java

$$JAVA_HOME/bin/javaversion
javaversion"1.8.0_20"
Java(TM)SERuntimeEnvironment(build1.8.0_20b26)
JavaHotSpot(TM)64BitServerVM(build25.20b23,mixedmode)

Itisinterestingthat,incontrast,whenyouinstallJDK6andJDK7isalreadyinstalled,the/usr/java
linkswillcontinuetopointtotheJDKwiththehighermajorversion.
MyadviceisthatifyourapplicationiscertifiedwithJDK7,andyou'dliketheuserstoautomatically
pickupthenewestbugfixesandsecurityupdates,thisisthesafestbet.
$exportJAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0

Hopethishelps.
Category:Sun
Tags:java
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Comments:
Bydefault,thelinkwillpointtothehighestversionnumberofJavainstalledviatheIPSpackaging
system,butsiteswhichwantadifferentdefaultcanchangeitviathe'pkgsetmediator'commandas
showninhttps://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36802/gnztu.html.
PostedbyAlanCoopersmithonNovember24,2014at05:50PMEST#
HiAlan,
Thanksforthepointerto'pkgsetmediator'
Itlookslikethefunctionalityisverysimilarto"/usr/sbin/alternativesconfigjava"and
"/usr/sbin/updatealternativesconfigjava"availableinsomeLinuxdistributionssuchasRedHatand
Ubuntu.
IlikethatSolarissetstheentireJavadefaultbundleinoneshot.WiththeLinuxalternativesmethod,
therearetoomanywaystomixandmatch,forexample,defaultjavafrom1.7butdefaultjavacfrom1.8.
Iwonderhowmanyinstallationsbenefitfromthatmuchflexibilityvs.howmanyinstallationsare
unintentionallymisconfigured.
Jeff
PostedbyJeffonNovember25,2014at01:00PMEST#
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