How to change maven java home

I am using Mac and none of the answers above helped me. I found out that maven loads its own JAVA_HOME from the path specified in: ~/.mavenrc

I changed the content of the file to be: JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

For Linux it will look something like:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre

If you are in Linux, set JAVA_HOME using syntax export JAVA_HOME=<path-to-java>. Actually it is not only for Maven.

The best way to force a specific JVM for MAVEN is to create a system wide file loaded by the mvn script.

This file is /etc/mavenrc and it must declare a JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to your specific JVM.

Example:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64

If the file exists, it's loaded.

Here is an extract of the mvn script in order to understand :

  if [ -f /etc/mavenrc ] ; then
    . /etc/mavenrc
  fi

  if [ -f "$HOME/.mavenrc" ] ; then
    . "$HOME/.mavenrc"
  fi

Alternately, the same content can be written in ~/.mavenrc

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