Setting the CLASSPATH of JAVA in Windows Vista

To setup the CLASSPATH of JAVA in Windows Vista

Right Click on My Computer > Properties >Advanced System setting > Environment Variables > System Variables

Add a new System Variable

Variable Name : JAVA_HOME

Variable value : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16

The value will be wherever you have your JDK installation.

There is a simple test to see if the installation you have done is correct or not.

Go to the command line prompt and type

C:\> java -version

the output will be

java version"1.6.0_17"

Java SE Runtime Environment

Java HotSpot Client VM

The version will be which ever version you have installed. This simple test shows that you have installed the JDK or JRE correctly and have set the class path also correctly.