Maven not picking JAVA_HOME correctly

Question

I am on windows environment and using maven to compile my project. Although I just created the project and added the dependencies for various libararies.

As I added

Answer 1

When you add the JAVA_HOME environment variable, if there are spaces in the path you must wrap the whole thing in quotes.

Answer 2

Maven ${java.home} property is set and taken from different places depending your Eclipse execution:

• from the default JRE selected for the workspace

  Window>Preferences>Java>Installed JREs

• from the specific Eclipse project,

  Java Build Path>Libraries>JRE System Library

• from the Run configuration.

  Run Configurations> Specific Run Configuration > JRE

Remember your JRE home paths points to a JDK or JRE under JDK