Making sure JAVA_HOME is correctly set

Question

Pretty new to Java and also to Mac ... I want to make sure JAVA_HOME is set so in other programs I can use its path. So I did some Googling and here is what I got:

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Answer 1

I had this problem after setting JAVA_HOME with jenv. You can solve the problem by editing file

/Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist

Just set path to your version of java by uncommenting / editing appropriate part of file. For AdoptOpenJDK installed with homebrew it looks like this:

Eclipse

    -vm/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
    
        -keyring
    ~/.eclipse_keyring