JAVA_HOME not set

[pulse00]

I've created a puppet-eclipse module to install eclipse with boxen. However, when starting eclipse i get the dialog from OSX to install Java, although java and javac is present in the terminal.

My guess is the missing ´JAVA_HOME` environment variable. Could you give me a hint to which directory this should be set?

[croaker]

Hi there, I'm not sure if this solves your problem, but you can get the Java home by running /usr/libexec/java_home
in the terminal. This enables you to export it as an env var using export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home).

[bryankennedy]

Could you help me understand how I should be using this. I'd assume that after including the java module in my boxen, that the JAVA_HOME env var would be setup, but it isn't.

Running this script, or manually adding this path to my shell profiles fixes that, I'm just wondering I should make that part of my manifest install, or if I'm missing something about the configuration of this module.