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JAVA_HOME use
Hi,
I read
JAVA_HOME
is used by build tools like ANT and maven. Does it has any other use apart from this.
please advise
Any links resources ideas highly appreciated. Thanks in advance
I read
JAVA_HOME
is used by build tools like ANT and maven. Does it has any other use apart from this.
please advise
Any links resources ideas highly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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JAVA_HOME
is used by build tools like ANT and maven. Does it has any other use apart from this.
It's used to compile (be it from maven, ant or command line) and run java applications.
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Say you have installed a java applicationHow do we know if installed application depends on java or not. I rememeber installing many applications on my laptop but never bothered to find if is java application or not and if it is using java_home or not. Please advise.
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Say you have installed a java application , that needs to use JDK (for example) . There has to be a way for it to know where JDK is installed . It would then use JAVA_HOME to get that path.