Well if you are on Red Hat, then you are probably a fan of RPMs... Surely all you have to do is install an rpm. (If you don't know how to do this, man rpm).

JAVA_HOME is an operating system (OS) environment variable which can optionally be set after either the Java Development Kit (JDK) or the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. The JAVA_HOME ...

Moreover, if you want to track the progress of the various projects composing JDK 7, you may want to subscribe to their mailing lists. On January 13 th 2011, Mark Reinhold – chief architect of the ...