I have a seemingly-common problem, but after scouring through the many posts (here and otherwise) of people experiencing the problem of not being able to properly set the JAVA_HOME path, no proposed solutions are solving my problem.
I recently installed Java via Homebrew (the version was Java16), but I needed to install Java8 for use in a specific IntelliJ project. I installed Java8 via Homewbrew as well and proceeded to also install jenv in order to manage the now-multiple versions of Java on my system.
In IntelliJ > Project Structure, I was able to specify the desired SDK and work in Java8—all was well up until here.
However, I subsequently needed to install Java14, which is when it all fell apart.
I followed the same procedures as when adding Java8, but now IntelliJ complains ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: /Users/user/.jenv/versions/system when any SDK is specified. Specifically, this error is thrown when attempting to build a .jar file via gradle by executing gradle jar
What I have done to attempt a fix (not explicitly in this order, and some commands executed multiple times):
jenv enable-plugin export
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
jenv add $(/usr/libexec/java_home)
jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-14.jdk/Contents/Home/
jenv add /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-84.jdk/Contents/Home/
When this failed to work, I opened IntelliJ directly from Terminal, in order to inherit the bash_profile variables (a proposed solution I have encountered a few times).
Additionally, I also navigated to the porject's folder in Terminal and issued jenv java 14 in order to implement a folder-level specification.
Below are the results of certain Terminal executions that may be informative:
javac -version
javac 16.0.1
java -version
openjdk version "16.0.1" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 16.0.1+0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 16.0.1+0, mixed mode, sharing)
which java
/Users/jzwi/.jenv/shims/java
ls -1 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
adoptopenjdk-14.jdk
adoptopenjdk-8.jdk
openjdk.jdk
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
Matching Java Virtual Machines (4):
16.0.1, x86_64: "OpenJDK 16.0.1" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home
15.0.3, x86_64: "Zulu 15.32.15" /Users/user/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/azul-15.0.3/Contents/Home
14.0.2, x86_64: "AdoptOpenJDK 14" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-14.jdk/Contents/Home
1.8.0_292, x86_64: "AdoptOpenJDK 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home
echo ${JAVA_HOME}
/Users/user/.jenv/versions/system
jenv version
system (set by /Users/user/.jenv/version)
jenv versions
* system (set by /Users/user/.jenv/version)
1.8
1.8.0.292
14
14.0
14.0.2
16
16.0
16.0.1
openjdk64-1.8.0.292
openjdk64-14.0.2
openjdk64-16.0.1
The first question is: should echo ${JAVA_HOME} result in system? It seems that most tutorials and explanations result in something more explicit (e.g., /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_111.jdk/Contents/Home).
If system is not the desired result, how do I fix in ways that I have not already tried?
As a last piece of information, here is what I have in my .bash_profile itself:
eval export PATH="/Users/user/.jenv/shims:${PATH}"
export JENV_SHELL=bash
export JENV_LOADED=1
unset JAVA_HOME
source '/usr/local/Cellar/jenv/0.5.4/libexec/libexec/../completions/jenv.bash'
jenv rehash 2>/dev/null
jenv refresh-plugins
jenv() {
typeset command
command="$1"
if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
shift
fi
case "$command" in
enable-plugin|rehash|shell|shell-options)
eval `jenv "sh-$command" "$@"`;;
*)
command jenv "$command" "$@";;
esac
}
export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(jenv init -)"
The unset JAVA_HOME seems super suspicious, but I neither know what it means, how it got there, nor does commenting it out solve my problem.
Many thanks for any help !!
