How to change maven java home

Question

I want to change maven java home which is open jdk with sun jdk. How can I do it ?

root@ak-EasyNote-TM98:~# mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.4
Maven home: /usr/         


        

Answer 1

Even if you install the Oracle JDK, your $JAVA_HOME variable should refer to the path of the JRE that is inside the JDK root. You can refer to my other answer to a similar question for more details.

Answer 2

The best way to force a specific JVM for MAVEN is to create a system wide file loaded by the mvn script.

This file is /etc/mavenrc and it must declare a JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to your specific JVM.

Example:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64

If the file exists, it's loaded.

Here is an extract of the mvn script in order to understand :

  if [ -f /etc/mavenrc ] ; then
    . /etc/mavenrc
  fi

  if [ -f "$HOME/.mavenrc" ] ; then
    . "$HOME/.mavenrc"
  fi

Alternately, the same content can be written in ~/.mavenrc

Answer 3

If you are in Linux, set JAVA_HOME using syntax export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java>. Actually it is not only for Maven.

Answer 4

I am using Mac and none of the answers above helped me. I found out that maven loads its own JAVA_HOME from the path specified in: ~/.mavenrc

I changed the content of the file to be: JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

For Linux it will look something like:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre

Answer 5

I have two Java versions on my Ubuntu server 14.04: java 1.7 and java 1.8.

I have a project that I need to build using java 1.8.

If I check my Java version using java -version

I get

java version "1.8.0_144"

But when I did mvn -version I get:

Java version: 1.7.0_79, vendor: Oracle Corporation

To set the mvn version to java8

I do this:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/

Then when I do mvn -version I get:

Java version: 1.8.0_144, vendor: Oracle Corporation

Answer 6

Great helps above, but if you having the similar environment like I did, this is how I get it to work.

• having a few jdk running, openjdk, oracle jdk and a few versions.
• install apache-maven via yum, package is apache-maven-3.2.1-1.el6.noarch

Edit this file /etc/profile.d/apache-maven.sh, such as the following, note that it will affect the whole system.

$ cat /etc/profile.d/apache-maven.sh
MAVEN_HOME=/usr/share/apache-maven
M2_HOME=$MAVEN_HOME
PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH
# change below to the jdk you want mvn to reference.
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_40/
export MAVEN_HOME
export M2_HOME
export PATH
export JAVA_HOME