To have your Mac pickup the latest Java installed you can do:

#export JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/java

You can find more information about this utility 
here: 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/java_home.1.html

Alex

On Friday, March 28, 2014 7:41:59 PM UTC, Jeff Schmitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>    Short version: What do you set JAVA_HOME to when configuring Jenkins on 
> a Mac Mavericks machine with a newly installed Java 1.8 from Oracle?    
>
> I'm a newbie to Jenkins and am trying to get an initial setup running per 
> the Jenkins Definitive Guide book.  I recently installed the latest Java 
> from Oracle (1.8) on a Mavericks machine that didn't have Java installed. 
>  Now I can't figure out what to set JAVA_HOME to when configuring Jenkins. 
>  I tried /usr/libexec/java_home but Jenkins doesn't like that, it says it's 
> not a directory.  I think tried what /usr/libexec/java_home points to but 
> Jenkins said it doesn't look like a java distribution.  
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>

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