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

One solution is to install the latest Oracle SQL Developer. Link @ SQL Developer Downloads . This installation will install and use the latest Java version 1.8.x.

The sqldeveloper.conf file resides at a newer location at ...\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin .