Error in setting JAVA HOME

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I have recently downloaded Maven and followed the instructions given on this this page  I already have ant installed on my machine  Now  if I want to verify that Maven is installed perfectly or not it is giving me error that JAVA HOME is not set correctly  but same works perfectly fine for ANT   For Maven I tried   1  open cmd 2  type mvn -version 3  Error appeared   C  Users Admin gt mvn -version  ERROR  JAVA HOME is set to an invalid directory  JAVA HOME    C  Program Files Java jre7 bin  Please set the JAVA HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation  For ANT I tried and worked   1  open cmd 2  type mvn -version 3  Apache Ant TM  version 1 9 1 compiled on May 15 2013   I went to the directory to check that java exe is actually there in that directory or not and it was there  I checked the environment variables they set fine  I restarted the system and checked again but same problem  Please let me know what am I missing

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Follow the instruction in here   JAVA HOMEshould be like this  JAVA HOME C  Program Files Java jdk1 7 0 07

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You are pointing your JAVA HOME to the JRE which is the Java Runtime Environment  The runtime environment doesn t have a java compiler in its bin folder  You should download the JDK which is the Java Development Kit  Once you ve installed that  you can see in your bin folder that there s a file called javac exe  That s your compiler

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The JAVA HOME should point to the JDK home rather than the JRE home if you are going to be compiling stuff  likewise - I would try and install the JDK in a directory that doesn t include a space  Even if this is not your problem now  it can cause problems in the future

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Do not include bin in your JAVA HOME env variable

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JAVA HOME   C  Program Files Java jdk JDK version number   Example  C  Program Files Java jdk-10  And then restart you command prompt it works

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Just remember to add quotes into the path if you have a space in your path to java home  C  Program Files java javaxxx  doesn t work but  C  Program Files java javaxxx   does

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JAVA HOME should point to jdk directory and not to jre directory  Also JAVA HOME should point to the home jdk directory and not to jdk bin directory   Assuming that you have JDK installed in your program files directory then you need to set the JAVA HOME like this   JAVA HOME  C  Program Files Java jdkxxx    xxx is the jdk version  Follow this link to learn more about setting JAVA HOME   http   docs oracle com cd E19182-01 820-7851 inst cli jdk javahome t index html

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