After upgrading to Java8, javac still shows 1.7

Question

I\'m having issues upgrading from JDK 1.7 -> 1.8 on OSX. The upgrade has completed, but javac still returns 1.7 as the version.

I\'ve downloaded JDK 8_u5 from Oracl

Answer 1

For Windows users:

It is possible, that you have to change your PATH variable. Try to set your "%JAVA_HOME%/bin" as the first entry in the PATH.

So now it looks like this:

 PATH    C:\Program Files\anyprogram;C:\Program Files\...;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

And you change it like this:

 PATH    %JAVA_HOME%\bin;C:\Program Files\anyprogram;C:\Program Files\...

Reason: Any other Program initiates an other Java Version first.