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JAVA_HOME fails on spaces and quotation marks with SET command

On WIndows 2008...

From a Command prompt...

I performed the following:

SET JAVA_HOME="c:\program files (x86)\Java60\jre"

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Now I can do the following:

echo %JAVA_HOME%
"c:\program files (x86)\Java60\jre"

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So now I try an installation procedure of Shibboleth, and later in the install, the install crashed on this line:

  set JAVACMD="%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe"

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The command prompt now breaks out of the .bat file and reports the following:

\Java60\jre"\bin\java.exe" was unexpected at this time.
  set JAVACMD=""c:\program files (x86)\Java60\jre"\bin\java.exe"

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There are two spaces in the JAVA_HOME "Program Files (", so I have to set the JAAVA_HOME with quotation marks, as follows:

SET JAVA_HOME="c:\program files (x86)\Java60\jre"

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... and either the spaces or the quotation marks are causing an issue

How can I fix this?

Thanks

dpearson

Much the simplest fix (if you can) is to reinstall Java so it has no space in the path. Personally I always put it in:

"C:/Java/..."

If not you will keep running into these sorts of problems.

Doug

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gheist

You dont have to set JAVA_HOME if you install official java package