OS name: 'mac os x', version: '10.9.ATLAS Home: /usr/local/Cellar/atlassian-plugin-sdk/6.2.4/libexecĪTLAS Scripts: /usr/local/Cellar/atlassian-plugin-sdk/6.2.4/libexec/binĪTLAS Maven Home: /usr/local/Cellar/atlassian-plugin-sdk/6.2.4/libexec/apache-maven-3.2.1Įxecuting: /usr/local/Cellar/atlassian-plugin-sdk/6.2.4/libexec/apache-maven-3.2.1/bin/mvn -version -gs /usr/local/Cellar/atlassian-plugin-sdk/6.2.4/libexec/apache-maven-3.2.1/conf/settings.xml Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home/jreĭefault locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation So my /etc/mavenrc looks like this: JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`Īnd after that change Maven uses the correct version of Java: mvn -version returns: Apache Maven 3.2.1 (ea8b2b07643dbb1b84b6d16e1f08391b666bc1e9 T17:37:52+00:00) You can find more options from manual pages: man java_home. Mac OS X has /usr/libexec/java_home command that returns a path suitable for setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable. All I had to do was to create one of these files (I chose /etc/mavenrc to apply the setting for all system users) and assign Java 1.7 home directory path to JAVA_HOME environment variable there. OS name: 'mac os x', version: '10.9.3', arch: 'x86_64', family: 'mac'Ī quick look at Maven start-up command ( $M2_HOME/bin/mvn) and you can see that during start-up, Maven reads two files /etc/mavenrc and ~/.mavenrc. Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Homeĭefault locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman Java version: 1.6.0_65, vendor: Apple Inc. Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.1 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode) Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13) The java -version command was giving following output: java version '1.7.0_51' 3.2.1 on Mac OS X and discovered that Maven did not use my default Java version (set to 1.7).

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