JAVA_HOME from /etc/profile

[Nigel Wade]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> I'm using Jpackage on FC4 and would like to use cocoon.  For reasons
> explained on the Jpackage list, Jpackage doesn't set JAVA_HOME (I
> don't understand the rationale, but that's a different topic).
> 
> Presumably, the best place to set JAVA_HOME is in /etc/profile?  I
> have about ten different JVM's, apparently.  Line's 6 and 54 of
> /etc/profile are the same, and are supposed to set the environment
> variable.  It's kinda working, in that something's being echoed, so
> the variable's being set, but Cocoon is still having a problem. I want
> all users to have the same JAVA_HOME setting, so don't want to do this
> in the local users .bashrc, if possible.
> 
> terminal output:
> 
> [root at localhost cocoon-2.1.8]# ./cocoon.sh servlet
> You must set JAVA_HOME to point at your Java Development Kit installation
> [root at localhost cocoon-2.1.8]# echo $JAVA_HOME
> /usr/lib/jvm/java

First of all, I don't use either Jpackage or cocoon. But I do use Java quite a lot.

The most obvious thing I see there is that cocoon is asking for a Java 
*Development* Kit, but your JAVA_HOME looks like it's pointing to a JVM, the 
Java run time. The use of the word "servlet" in the command suggests to me that 
cocoon is some kind of servlet container, and if you are serving JSP you need a 
Java compiler in the environment, a JRE/JVM is not sufficient.

What does cocoon really need, and what are you actually supplying to it?

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