How to change settings for SQL Developer to correctly recognize current version of SDK

Question

I\'ve installed Oracle 11g r2 to my machine and when I opened Oracle SQL Developer it says: java 1.6.0_02 is not supported and telling me to install new java ve

Answer 1

sqldeveloper.conf under sqldeveloper/bin in the SQLDeveloper base directory has an entry for the java home being used.

(So, on Windows, if you have unzipped SQLDeveloper to C:\sqldev then sqldeveloper.conf is under C:\sqldev\sqldeveloper\bin)

Something like:

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20

Quit SQLDeveloper, remove this entry and relaunch SQLDeveloper. You should be prompted for the location of Java.