Fedora OpenJDK Set JAVA_HOME

Question

I am using Fedora(actually Pidora since I am trying to set up hadoop on a cluster of raspberrypi). I installed oopenjdk on all of the nodes using ansible. However, when I tried to set up the JAVA_HOME environment variable, I got really confused looking at the folder of /usr/lib/jvm:

[root@datafireball1 jvm]# ls
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.7.0.fc20.arm  jre  jre-1.7.0  jre-1.7.0-openjdk  jre-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.7.0.fc20.arm  jre-openjdk
[root@datafireball1 jvm]# ls -alth
total 80K
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Jun  7 21:07 .
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   35 Jun  7 21:07 jre-1.7.0-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0_openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   27 Jun  7 21:07 jre-1.7.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   29 Jun  7 21:07 jre-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 Jun  7 21:07 jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   48 Jun  7 21:07 jre-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.7.0.fc20.arm -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.7.0.fc20.arm/jre
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4.0K Jun  7 21:06 java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.60-2.4.7.0.fc20.arm

Why there are so many folders for Java and which folder should I use as the Java home?

[root@datafireball1 bin]# which java
/usr/bin/java
[root@datafireball1 bin]# ls -alSh /usr/bin/ | grep java
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      22 Jun  7 21:07 java -> /etc/alternatives/java

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can add in your .bashrc file:

export JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/java | sed "s:bin/java::")

and it will dynamically change when you update your packages.

Answer 2

Best solution tested with Fedora 26 :

echo "JAVA_HOME=/etc/alternatives/jre" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
echo $JAVA_HOME