[Live-demo] Where should JAVA_HOME be set (if overriding default=openjdk 1.7)?

[Cameron Shorter]

Java community,

I've written a script which installs openjdk 1.7 onto osgeolive 5.0, and 
then have successfully opened geomajas using openjdk 1.7 to confirm it 
works. (I still need to update the install script to also set JAVA_HOME 
to openjdk).

I looking for advice on how we should handle having applications which 
make use of 2 different java versions on our system.

JAVA_HOME currently links to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

I suggest that in future,
JAVA_HOME should link to /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0

My question is how we should applications which wish to continue using 
java-6-sun update JAVA_HOME?
* Where in the startup / install scripts should we be inserting a line 
which sets the JAVA_HOME variable?


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