Assume I am compiling the JDK from source downloaded from Oracle.
Now the JDK is extracted into /opt/oracle/jdk/
I am exporting the JAVA_HOME and the path environment variable in /etc/profile.
Is it the recommended way?
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Assume I am compiling the JDK from source downloaded from Oracle.
Now the JDK is extracted into /opt/oracle/jdk/
I am exporting the JAVA_HOME and the path environment variable in /etc/profile.
Is it the recommended way?
That’s one way to do it. But consider that different users (or different applications) on the machine may need to use different Java installations. So other options are for users to set the environment variables in their personal shell profiles, and for applications to set them in wrapper scripts, “init.d” scripts or whatever.
There is no single “right” way to do this. Pick a way that best fits your needs.