`ports clean all' warning: No value for java JAVA_HOME was automatically discovered

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 21, 2014, at 08:03, j. van den hoff wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:37:36 +0200, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Do you have Java installed?
> 
> I just updated to 10.9, presuming java would be there by default (as it used to be, IIRC) -- at least I did not actively prevent it --, but apparently it is not.

Correct, that’s one of the changes in 10.9.

> what is the canonical way to install it these days? directly from oracle?

Yes, download from Oracle and install. Apple is handing responsibility for Java on OS X back to Oracle.