i am trying to run sonar runner, i have the bat file in my project directory and when i navigate to it via command promptt and try and run it i get an error message saying
Given that it's looking for \bin\java.exe within JAVA_HOME, I suspect you ought to set it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_15 - without the bin part.
it should point to the java root folder, in your case to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_15
Please Restrict your path to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_15 only (i.e. no bin).
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