How do I fix maven error The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly

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Issue    I am getting the Maven error  The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly  when I run through Inno setup batch execution  However  I am able to run successfully outside Inno Setup  e g Command line  Batch file  Vbs   I am clueless to identify the issue   Inno Setup Invoked Prompt   C   gt mvn -version The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program NB  JAVA HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE   Regular Command Prompt   C   gt mvn -version C   Apache Maven 3 5 0  ff8f5e7444045639af65f6095c62210b5713f426  2017-04-04T01 09 06 05 30  Maven home  C  Program Files apache-maven-3 5 0 bin    Java version  1 8 0 131  vendor  Oracle Corporation Java home  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 131 jre Default locale  en US  platform encoding  Cp1252 OS name   windows 7   version   6 1   arch   amd64   family   windows    Maven Command from InnoSetup    Files  Source   C   Setup MavenInstaller bat   DestDir    tmp    Flags  ignoreversion  Run  Filename    cmd    Parameters    C    tmp  MavenInstaller bat      Maven Command from Batch File   mvn archetype generate -DgroupId com mycompany mycomponent-DartifactId  APPLICATION NAME  -DarchetypeArtifactId maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode false   Setting JAVA HOME  Check the If Java 1 8 is installed or not  If not installed  Install the same and set the JAVA HOME as follows   SETX JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 131  SETX -m JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 131  REG ADD  HKLM SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Session Manager Environment   v Path  t REG SZ  d   path  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 131 bin    f   Many Thanks

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A very common mistake people make is that, when they set JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME, they set the value to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221\bin or similar.

Please note JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME value should not contain \bin

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In case of windows if there is any space in path to jdk like   C  Program Files jdk   then it doesn t work  but if we keep jdk in a location which doesn t have space then it works fine like   C  jdk

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It seems that Maven doesn t like the JAVA HOME variable to have more than one value  In my case  the error was due to the presence of the additional path C  Program Files Java jax-rs  the whole path was C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 20 C  Program Files Java jax-rs    So I deleted the JAVA HOME variable and re-created it again with the single value C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 20

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I have removed JAVA HOME variable and kept only path and classpath variables by pointing them to jdk and jre respectively  It worked for me

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Following is the best way to get of the issue   check following on classpath    Make sure JAVA HOME system variable must have till jdk e g C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 80   don t append bin here  Because MAVEN will look for jre which is under C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 80 Set  JAVA HOME  bin in classpath     Then try Maven version     Hope it will help

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I was facing the same issue while using mvn clean package command in Windows OS  C  eclipse workspace my-sparkapp gt mvn clean package The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program NB  JAVA HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE   I resolved this issue by deleting JAVA HOME environment variables from User Variables   System Variables then restart the laptop  then set JAVA HOME environment variable again   Hope it will help you

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SET JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0   worked fine for me   Note - Don t put double quotes over the path as mentioned above  Otherwise when you run   mvn -version   it will give following error      Files java jdk1 8 0 201 jre       was unexpected at this time

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I was able to solve this problem with these steps    Uninstall JDK java Reinstall java  download JDK installer Add Update the JAVA HOME variable to JDK install folder

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I had the same problem on Windows 7   The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program NB  JAVA HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE   The solution turned out to be very simple - right click on command prompt shortcut and choose  Run as Administrator   After that  the problem disappeared

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when you setup the java home variable try to target path till JDK instead of java  setup path like  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 231 if you make path like  C  Program Files Java it will run java but it will not run maven

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I struggled with the same issue  and the following worked for me   Step 1  Check your JAVA HOME setting  It may look something like   JAVA HOME   usr libexec java home    Step 2  Update JAVA HOME like so     vim  bash profile   export JAVA HOME    usr libexec java home     source  bash profile   Step 3  In a new shell  check that the Maven command is now working properly     mvn -version   If this fixed the problem  you should get back a response like   Apache Maven 3 0 3  r1075438  2011-03-01 01 31 09 0800  Maven home   usr share maven Java version  1 7 0 05  vendor  Oracle Corporation Java home   Library Java JavaVirtualMachines 1 7 0 jdk Contents Home jre Default locale  en US  platform encoding  UTF-8 OS name   mac os x   version   10 8 2   arch   x86 64   family   mac

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This is how I fixed this issue on Windows 10   My JDK is located in C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2 and the problem I had was the space in Program Files  If I set JAVA HOME using set JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2  then Maven had an issue with the double quotes   C  Users gt set JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2   C  Users gt echo  JAVA HOME   C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2   C  Users gt mvn -version Files Java jdk-11 0 2       was unexpected at this time    Referring to Program Files as PROGRA 1 didn t help either  The solution is using the PROGRAMFILES variable inside of JAVA HOME    C  Users gt echo  PROGRAMFILES  C  Program Files  C  Program Files gt set JAVA HOME  PROGRAMFILES  Java jdk-11 0 2  C  Program Files gt echo  JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2  C  Program Files gt mvn -version Apache Maven 3 6 2  40f52333136460af0dc0d7232c0dc0bcf0d9e117  2019-08-27T17 06 16 02 00  Maven home  C  apache-maven-3 6 2 bin    Java version  11 0 2  vendor  Oracle Corporation  runtime  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 0 2 Default locale  en US  platform encoding  Cp1252 OS name   windows 10   version   10 0   arch   amd64   family   windows

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Setting JAVA HOME directory from command line worked for me   First   JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0    Or    export JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0    Then try   mvn -version   to make sure you do not get the same error

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create folder Maven  inside this folder extract download file  this file should  C  Program Files YourFolderName  must in C  Program Files drive  goto This PC - gt  right click - gt  properties - gt  advanced system - gt  environment variable  user variable ---- gt  new  amp     note create two variable    if not may be give error i    variable name   MAVEN variable value   C  Program Files MAVEN ii   variable name   MAVEN HOME variable value   C  Program Files MAVEN apache-maven-3 6 3 apache-maven-3 6 3  system variable path --- gt  Edit--- gt  new----give path of this folder i  C  Program Files MAVEN ii  C  Program Files MAVEN apache-maven-3 6 3 bin   Hurrraaaaayyyyy

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Following steps solved the issue for me     Copied the zip file into the Program Files folder and extracted to  apache-maven-3 6 3-bin   Then copied the path  C  Program Files apache-maven-3 6 3-bin apache-maven-3 6 3 Then created the new MAVEN HOME variable within environmental variables with the above path    Also added   C  Program Files apache-maven-3 6 3-bin apache-maven-3 6 3 bin   address to the  PATH  variable

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The SETX command does not modify the current environment   If you run the following batch file   setx AAA aaa echo AAA  AAA    It will print  AAA    So your batch file is wrong  You have to use set   set AAA aaa     See What is the difference between SETX and SET in environment variables in Windows

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I was having this same issue while my JAVA HOME system variable was pointing to C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 171 bin and my PATH entry consisted of just  JAVA HOME    I changed my JAVA HOME variable to exclude the bin folder  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 171   and added the bin folder to the system PATH variable   JAVA HOME  bin

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removing JAVA HOME and JAVA JRE from environment variable is resolved the issue

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My JDK is installed at C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 144   I had set JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 144   and I was getting this error   The JAVA HOME environment variable is not defined correctly This environment variable is needed to run this program NB  JAVA HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE   When I changed the JAVA HOME to C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 144 jre  the issue got fixed  I am not sure how

[maven] How do I fix maven error The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly?

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