Defining your version of JRE for Signature Scanner

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is included with the download of the Signature Scanner. As a result, you do not need to configure the JRE or the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

However, there may be situations that require you to use your version of JRE, for example you have self-signed certificates stored in a preferred version of Java or your company policy prohibits using the version of the JRE included with Signature Scanner. In these instances, you can set the BDS_JAVA_HOME environment variable to define the installed version of JRE Signature Scanner should use. The Signature Scanner will then use this version when scanning components.

Note: If you do not configure BDS_JAVA_HOME, Signature Scanner uses the version of JRE packaged with the download of the Scanner.

To configure the BDS_JAVA_HOME environment variable on Windows:

  1. Access the System Properties dialog box. For example, from the Control Panel, click System > Advanced System Settings.

  2. Select the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables.

  3. In the Environment Variables dialog box, under System Variables, click New.

  4. Enter the following information:

    Variable name: BDS_JAVA_HOME

    Variable value: <path to JRE>

  5. Click OK.

To configure the BDS_JAVA_HOME environment variable on Linux or Mac OS X:

  1. Start a terminal session.

  2. At the command line, type

    export BDS_JAVA_HOME=<path to JRE>

  3. Close the terminal session.