DataModeler 4 MacOS Java 7 Home

Question

The Oracle Data Modeler 4 launcher.sh script correctly looks at the environment variable JAVA_HOME to find a JRE/JDK.
However, the datamodeler-Darwin.conf file has the following path set explicitly - therefore resulting in datamodeler looking at java 6 even though java 7 is installed and JAVA_HOME is correctly set
SetJavaHome /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home
The quickest solution to get this working and make datamodeler automatically detect the correct JRE is to
simply comment/remove the above SetJavaHome line from datamodeler-Darwin.conf
And everything will work fine.
I hope the future releases will not have this path set explicitly in the darwin conf file.
File Paths:
OracleDataModeler.app/Contents/Resources/datamodeler/ide/bin/launcher.sh
OracleDataModeler.app/Contents/Resources/datamodeler/datamodeler/bin/datamodeler-Darwin.conf

Answer 1

just realized that it works if opening from the shell as
     $open /Applications/OracleDataModeler.app/
and not when clicking on the app from finder directly.
options may include
1. updating the plist file
2. set the path in datamodeler-Darwin.conf
3. add the following file to OracleDataModeler.app/Contents/MacOS/datamodeler.sh
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
4. other...
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