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Tag: environment-variables

Setting JAVA_HOME

I’m having a problem when running programs that use Java from the command line. I get back a message saying Java.exe could not be found. I’ve followed the instructions found in several places for setting JAVA_HOME in Windows 7. As can be seen in the image I’m pointing to the JDK folder as in…

How do I set environment variables from Java?

How do I set environment variables from Java? I see that I can do this for subprocesses using ProcessBuilder. I have several subprocesses to start, though, so I’d rather modify the current process’s environment and let the subprocesses inherit it. There’s a System.getenv(String) for getting …