What is the right way to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable on Windows NT?
Created May 7, 2012
Peter Bladwell In my case it's just
set JAVA_HOME=C:JDK1.3.1
...but if you're running NT the "right" way to set this is as one of the system's User properties, which you can do via
start -> settings -> control panel -> system -> environment
then enter JAVA_HOME in the Variable box and C:JDK1.3.1 in the Value box, and click on Set.
By the way, Tomcat is one of the easiest to install pieces of software I've ever seen - but you do have to get this bit right.