Failed to run JAVA even though path is set on Windows 8 Enterprise - Cordova

Question

I have made a new Ionic / Cordova project and I'm trying to build it on windows 8.1. I installed JDK and JRE 7 as well as android sdk and ant and added them to my path using the following instructions.

cordova platform add android not working while listing Android targets

When I execute ionic platform add android or cordova I am still getting the following error:

C:\Users\BogdanR\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                    throw e;
                          ^
Error: Failed to run 'java -version', make sure your java environment is set up
including JDK and JRE.
Your JAVA_HOME variable is C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51
Error: Command failed: 'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.


    at C:\Users\BogdanR\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.4.0\bin\lib\check_reqs.js:62:22
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:641:7)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:956:11)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at Pipe.close (net.js:466:12)
Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 8
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\nodist\bin\node_modules\cordova\src\superspawn.js:112:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
Unable to add platform android. Please see console for more info.

I tried modifying both system variables and user PATH variables.

THE WEIRD THING is that I can type in java -version and it works:

java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

I am using nodist to manage npm if that is of any relevance.

Answer 1

After I ran into the same issue, the following steps seems to have fixed it:

• PATH needs to contain the bin folder of the Java installation path C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin make sure the bin is included
• JAVA_HOME needs to be set to the root of that Java installation folder, in my case C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05