I recently read in a book on a Java-based technology that one can determine if the JDK is installed by running java -version and looking for the the Strings “Client” or “Server” in the output of the ...

JAVA_HOME is an operating system (OS) environment variable which can optionally be set after either the Java Development Kit (JDK) or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. The JAVA_HOME ...

Moreover, if you want to track the progress of the various projects composing JDK 7, you may want to subscribe to their mailing lists. On January 13 th 2011, Mark Reinhold – chief architect of the ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Well if you are on Red Hat, then you are probably a fan of RPMs... Surely all you have to do is install an rpm. (If you don't know how to do this, man rpm).