12.2. The Installation Directory <java.home>
The term <java.home> is used throughout this book to refer to the value of the java.home system property, which specifies the directory where the JRE is installed. This is the top-level directory of the JRE, or the jre directory in the Java 2 SDK (J2SDK) software. For example, if you have J2SDK 1.4 installed on Solaris in a directory named /home/user1/j2sdk1.4.0 or on Win32 in a directory named C:\j2sdk1.4.0, <java.home> refers to the following directory:
/home/user1/j2sdk1.4.0/jre [Solaris] C:\j2sdk1.4.0\jre [Win32]
Similarly, if you have JRE 1.4 installed on Solaris in a directory named /home/user1/j2re1.4.0 or on Win32 in a directory named C:\j2re1.4.0,<java.home> refers to the following directory: ...
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