How to change settings for SQL Developer to correctly recognize current version of SDK

Question

I\'ve installed Oracle 11g r2 to my machine and when I opened Oracle SQL Developer it says: java 1.6.0_02 is not supported and telling me to install new java ve

Answer 1

Adding a solution for Mac.

Edit this file: /Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/Resources/sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin/jdk.conf

Uncomment the below line for SetJavaHome and give it the full path to JDK1.8. As of today, it does not work with JDK 11.

# By default, the product launcher will search for a JDK to use. If you wish
# to specify a JDK to use for all users of this install, uncomment the line
# below and set the path the the preferred JDK
#
# SetJavaHome /path/jdk

Answer 2

In windows 10, I needed to go to following folder and change following product.conf file and set SetJavaHome directive.

%APPDATA%\sqldeveloper\<product-version>\product.conf

in my machine:

C:\Users\ati_o\AppData\Roaming\sqldeveloper\17.4.0\product.conf

with following line.

SetJavaHome C:\Tools\oraclejdk8

Thanks to comment from @thatjeffsmith, in MacOS or Linux/Unix, go to:

$HOME/.sqldeveloper/<product-version>/product.conf

to set same SetJavaHome directive.

Answer 3

One solution is to install the latest Oracle SQL Developer. Link @ SQL Developer Downloads . This installation will install and use the latest Java version 1.8.x.

The sqldeveloper.conf file resides at a newer location at ...\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin .

Answer 4

sqldeveloper.conf under sqldeveloper/bin in the SQLDeveloper base directory has an entry for the java home being used.

(So, on Windows, if you have unzipped SQLDeveloper to C:\sqldev then sqldeveloper.conf is under C:\sqldev\sqldeveloper\bin)

Something like:

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20

Quit SQLDeveloper, remove this entry and relaunch SQLDeveloper. You should be prompted for the location of Java.

Answer 5

This workaround helped many people (including me) during the last 12 months, so you must try it if you still have the problem:

• Go to sqldeveloper\jdk\jre\bin folder and locate "msvcr100.dll"
• Copy this dll to C:\Windows\System32 folder

Obs: you will need to provide administrator authorization to finish the file copy, so you must be logged on as a true windows administrator.

After copying the file, just try to start the sqldeveloper again. No reboot needed.

Hope this helps you too!

Answer 6

Go to sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin and edit sqldeveloper.conf file.

There you'll see

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21

Change it to correct jdk path