How do I specify the JDK for a GlassFish domain?

Question

I've got GlassFish 2.1.1 installed. I have a 1.5 and a 1.6 JDK installed. Even though my JAVA_HOME variable is set to the 1.5 version (and both "java -version" and "javac -version" display 1.5), whenever I start my glassfish domain it always states at the top of the log that its using version 1.6. How can I override this?

Starting Domain domain2, please wait.
04-May-2012 08:38:47 com.sun.enterprise.admin.servermgmt.launch.ASLauncher buildCommand
INFO:
C:/Dev/jdk/1.6/1.6.0_19\bin\java

Answer 1

Here you can find how to set path to JDK for Glassfish: http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/java/fixing-glassfish-jdk-path-problem-solved

Check

glassfish\config\asenv.bat

where java path is configured

REM set AS_JAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_04\jre/..
set AS_JAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_16

Answer 2

Adding the actual content from dbf's link in order to keep the solution within stackoverflow.

It turns out that when I first installed Glassfish on my Windows system I had JDK 6 installed, and recently I had to downgrade to JDK 5 to compile some code for another project.

Apparently when Glassfish is installed it hard-codes its reference to your JDK location, so to fix this problem I ended up having to edit a file named asenv.bat. In short, I edited this file:

C:\glassfish\config\asenv.bat:

and I commented out the reference to JDK 6 and added a new reference to JDK 5, like this:

REM set AS_JAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_04\jre/..
set AS_JAVA=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_16

Although the path doesn't appear to be case sensitive, I've spent hours debugging an issue around JMS Destination object not found due to my replacement path's case being incorrect.

Answer 3

I'm working on a Mac, OSX 10.9. I recently had to update my JDK to 1.7 for some VPN software. The application I'm working runs on JDK 1.6, so a GlassFish had to run with JDK 1.6. It took a minute to iron this out, but here's how it went for me. I work with the NetBeans IDE by the way.

1. My GlssFish configuration file

   /Applications/NetBeans/glassfish-3.1.2.2/glassfish/config/asenv.conf

2. Path to JDK 1.6

   /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home

3. I added the following line to the bottom of my asenv.conf file

   AS_JAVA=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home

Answer 4

Had the same problem in my IntelliJ 17 after adding fresh glassfish 4.1.

I had set my JAVA_HOME environment variable as follow:

echo %JAVA_HOME%
C:\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\

Then opened %GLASSFISH_HOME%\glassfish\config\asenv.bat

And just added and the end of the file:

set AS_JAVA=%JAVA_HOME%

Then Glassfish started without problems.