Specify which JVM to use on a JIRA instance

Question

We run two JIRA instances on the same Linux box.  One for DVLP and one for PROD.

Is there a way to specifiy which JDK to use to run JIRA so I can run 1.6_17 on PROD and the lastest in DVLP?

Dieter · Accepted Answer

Just set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the top directory of your jdk installation.

I suggest to get the .bin variant of the jdk, copy it to /opt and just run the file. The jdk extracts itself to a directory named jdk*
this directory name should be used to define JAVA_HOME

If you use dedicated users for PROD and DLVP you should set JAVA_HOME in the .profile script if you use bash