Having JAVA_HOME inconsistency issue with maven

Question

I am on the verge of releasing a project but it seem JAVA_HOME is been inconsistent. Maybe it's been overridden somewhere else? I am using ubuntu 14.04 and I have openjdk-7, java-7-oracle, java-8-oracle. Default java was set using update-java-alternatives

java -version

java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)

mvn -version gives the following output

Apache Maven 3.2.1 (ea8b2b07643dbb1b84b6d16e1f08391b666bc1e9; 2014-02-14T17:37:52+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven3
Java version: 1.8.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-39-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

But when doing mvn release:prepare, below is what I see:

[INFO] Not generating release POMs
[INFO] Executing goals 'clean verify'...
[WARNING] Maven will be executed in interactive mode, but no input stream has been configured for this MavenInvoker instance.
[INFO] Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
[INFO]   We cannot execute /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin/java/bin/java

It looks like the java executor is being looked for in the wrong folder : /java/bin/java. I have tried changing java home to /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-orable/bin but it broke mvn-version check.

How to fix this? Thanks for reading

I can't find here to fix that. Has anyone encountered anything similar?

EDIT 1:

 <build>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.12</version>
                <configuration>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>**/*ITest.java</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.7</source>
                    <target>1.7</target>
                    <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
                    <meminitial>128m</meminitial>
                    <maxmem>512m</maxmem>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <preparationGoals>clean verify</preparationGoals>
                    <tagBase>https://xxxx/svn/projectname/tags</tagBase>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.mysema.maven</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-apt-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.9</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
</build>

I have switched to java-7-oracle and still no chance:

[INFO] Executing goals 'clean verify'...
[WARNING] Maven will be executed in interactive mode, but no input stream has been configured for this MavenInvoker instance.
[INFO] Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
[INFO]   We cannot execute /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin/java/bin/java

EDIT 2:

Dear down voters, I am not asking for help about how to set Java Home. It's been set to

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

Then to the following when I tried running same thing with java 7

/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle

This is set in /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh by webup8 script

export J2SDKDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
export J2REDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
export DERBY_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/db

EDIT 3

I have switched to openjdk 7 , edited the jdk.sh to reflect this export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 and the error went. I run to other famous issues (permission issues to tags folder. weird) . So it's not related to the maven itself I guess. But this is weird that it works fine for openjdk ...

Answer 1

JAVA_HOME must point to jre, not jdk. Then set :

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre

Answer 2

Creating a file .mavenrc on my home folder and adding the code below solved the problem for me. (Ubuntu 14.10, Maven 3.2.1)

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle