How to set environment variables to an application on OSX Mountain Lion?

Question

since the upgrade to OSX Mountain Lion I‘ve got some problems with setting the environment variables for eclipse and maven.

My goal is to run a maven command in Ecli

Answer 1

Steps of commands on terminal window:

1. vi ~/.bash_profile
2. Press i (to bring the vi editor in edit mode)
3. Enter the environment variable in the vi editor window
   • e.g. export JAVA_HOME=/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/tools/hudson.model.JDK/java8
4. esc key followed by :wq
5. source ~/.bash_profile