RE: Error launching java ... unable to open jars.cfg

Remember that the J9 JVM's only recognize the version from whatever the JAVA_HOME environment variable contains. In truth, it's the java command in qshell that does the version selection and after V6R1, it no longer pays any attention to the java.version set in the command line. There are several ways to set JAVA_HOME. One is the SystemDefault.Properties file as you discovered. The SystemDefault.properties file in your home directory is high in the precedence list and will override whatever was in JAVA_HOME before the call to the java command.

Notice that there's a symlink at /QIBM/ProdData/Java that points to /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM to make older JAVA_HOME settings work.

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:40 AM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: Error launching java ... unable to open jars.cfg

On 11/23/2013 6:59 PM, David Gibbs wrote:

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/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk60/32bit/bin/java -version
getBootClasspath failed to open file

java.home=/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk50/32bit/lib/jars.cfg - A
file or directory in the path name does not exist.

JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library jclscar_24(2):

getBootClasspath returned NULL

Unable to create Java Virtual Machine.

I figured out the problem ... I had a SystemDefault.properties file in my home
directory and it contained:
java.home=java.home=/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk50/32bit

(not a typo in the email, thatis 'java.home=java.home...'

Which, apparently, causes Java all sorts of problems.

david

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