“The system cannot find the file C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe”

Question

I am on JDK 8u25 on Windows 8, and I am experiencing a problem with my Java installation. I can run javac perfectly fine, but running java produc

Answer 1

Why Oracle did such a poor way to point to java is beyond me. We solved this problem by creating a new link to the JDK

mklink /d C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_40\bin\"

The same would work for a JRE if that is all that is required.

This replaces the old symlinks in C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath (if they existed previously)