setting JAVA_HOME & CLASSPATH in CentOS 6

I created a folder named a in /home/prasanth and copied your code to a file named A.java. I compiled from /home/prasanth as javac a/A.java and run javac a.A. I got output as

a!

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The easiest way to set an environment variable in CentOS is to use export as in

$> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk.1.5.0_12

$> export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME

However, variables set in such a manner are transient i.e. they will disappear the moment you exit the shell. Obviously this is not helpful when setting environment variables that need to persist even when the system reboots. In such cases, you need to set the variables within the system wide profile. In CentOS (I’m using v5.2), the folder /etc/profile.d/ is the recommended place to add customizations to the system profile. For example, when installing the Sun JDK, you might need to set the JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME environment variables. In this case: Create a new file called java.sh

vim /etc/profile.d/java.sh

Within this file, initialize the necessary environment variables

export JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12/jre
export PATH=$PATH:$JRE_HOME/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_12
export JAVA_PATH=$JAVA_HOME

export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Now when you restart your machine, the environment variables within java.sh will be automatically initialized (checkout /etc/profile if you are curious how the files in /etc/profile.d/ are loaded).

PS: If you want to load the environment variables within java.sh without having to restart the machine, you can use the source command as in:

$> source java.sh

Instructions:

1. Click on the Terminal icon in the desktop panel to open a terminal window and access the command prompt.
2. Type the command which java to find the path to the Java executable file.
3. Type the command su - to become the root user.
4. Type the command vi /root/.bash_profile to open the system bash_profile file in the Vi text editor. You can replace vi with your preferred text editor.
5. Type export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/ at the bottom of the file. Replace /usr/local/java with the location found in step two.
6. Save and close the bash_profile file.
7. Type the command exit to close the root session.
8. Log out of the system and log back in.
9. Type the command echo $JAVA_HOME to ensure that the path was set correctly.

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