How to Use System JRE Instead of Embedded JRE

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JIRA installer comes with its own JRE, hence JIRA won't use system JRE when its run. If you want to configure JIRA to use system JRE please follow the steps below:

  1. Shutdown JIRA
  2. Edit <JIRA_Installation_Directory>/bin/catalina.bat or catalina.sh on your favorite text editor

  3. Input the following lines:

    For catalina.bat after the line "@echo off":

    SET JRE_HOME="<Full Path of Your JRE Directory>"

    For catalina.sh after the line "#!/bin/sh":

    JRE_HOME="<Full Path of Your JRE Directory>"
  4. Change the JRE_HOME value with the absolute path of your system JRE.
  5. Save
  6. Restart JIRA

How

The bundled JRE version is 1.6 update 26. Please check your System Information page (JIRA Admin > System Information) and see if JIRA run in this JAVA version instead of the installed JRE on your system

Last modified on Oct 15, 2014

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