Problems with setting the JAVA_HOME variable

Hello,

I have problems with setting my JAVA_HOME variable. I am using Slackware 12.0, bash shell.
This is a question for the 'Linux Newbie' forum (not slackware-specific), and I have posted it there some hours ago, however, nobody is answering there to it, and I am still stuck with the problem.

I have set JAVA_HOME in my /etc/profile, like this:

JAVA_HOME=/home/username/programs/jdk1.6.0_7/bin:$JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_HOME

but when I login in with my user name and type env on the command line, I get for JAVA_HOME the following:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java

Also, in my /etc/profile I have put the path to my java in the PATH variable, like this:
PATH=/home/username/programs/jdk1.6.0_7/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export PATH

and when I type env when I login, then the PATH variable contains correctly the path to the jdk (as I have put it into /etc/profile).

I expect that after I have set everything as I want in /etc/profile, and restart the computer then what I have set will be relevant and when I login and type env, I will get values to the variables equal to those I have set in /etc/profile. Why it does not happen?

I have particularly a problem with a Java application, which I want to run. When I type ant, I get:
error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /usr/lib/java/bin/java.

Thanks a lot.

Regards

i use java too. In /etc/profile you have a section

Code:

---

#
# Make path more comfortable
#
if test -z "$PROFILEREAD" ; then
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
    if test "$HOME" != "/" ; then
        for dir in $HOME/bin/$CPU $HOME/bin ; do
            test -d $dir && PATH=$dir:$PATH
        done
    fi
    if test "$UID" = 0 ; then
        test -d /opt/kde3/sbin  && PATH=/opt/kde3/sbin:$PATH
        PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
    fi
    for dir in        /usr/X11/bin \
                /usr/bin/X11 \
                /usr/X11R6/bin \
                /var/lib/dosemu \
                /usr/games \
                /opt/bin \
                /opt/kde3/bin \
                /opt/kde2/bin \
                /opt/kde/bin \
                /usr/openwin/bin \
                /opt/cross/bin \
                /usr/lib/jdk1.6.0_11/jre/bin

    do
        test -d $dir && PATH=$PATH:$dir
    done
    unset dir
    export PATH
fi

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and for me works.

Cheers!