How to change settings for SQL Developer to correctly recognize current version of SDK

In windows 10, I needed to go to following folder and change following product.conf file and set SetJavaHome directive.

%APPDATA%\sqldeveloper\<product-version>\product.conf

in my machine:

C:\Users\ati_o\AppData\Roaming\sqldeveloper\17.4.0\product.conf

with following line.

SetJavaHome C:\Tools\oraclejdk8

Thanks to comment from @thatjeffsmith, in MacOS or Linux/Unix, go to:

$HOME/.sqldeveloper/<product-version>/product.conf

to set same SetJavaHome directive.

sqldeveloper.conf under sqldeveloper/bin in the SQLDeveloper base directory has an entry for the java home being used.

(So, on Windows, if you have unzipped SQLDeveloper to C:\sqldev then sqldeveloper.conf is under C:\sqldev\sqldeveloper\bin)

Something like:

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20

Quit SQLDeveloper, remove this entry and relaunch SQLDeveloper. You should be prompted for the location of Java.

Go to sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin and edit sqldeveloper.conf file.

There you'll see

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21

Change it to correct jdk path

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