title: Cannot start jmeter 3.3 with java 9
body: <p>For some reason, there is installed Java 8 and Java 9 on my computer with Win10Pro.</p>
  
  <p>How to run JMeter?</p>
  
  <p>As I found some info, there are two ways:</p>
  
  <p>1) run last official JMeter 3.3 with Java 8 using system variable settings:
  -- I set up sys.variables in windows system setup targeting to my Java 8 folder:</p>
  
  <pre><code>JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_45\bin
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>-- and run jmeter.bat.</p>
  
  <p>Result: JMeter was still starting in java9.</p>
  
  <pre><code>  "Error: Java version -- 9.0.1 -- is too low to run JMeter. Needs a Java version greater than or equal to 1.8.0 errorlevel=3"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>2) to download last night build java9 compatible apache-JMeter-r1822461:
  -- I set up system variable targeting to java9:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-9.0.1\bin
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>--I run the jmeter.bat:
  Result:
  nothing happened - just blink the cmd window and closed.</p>
  
  <p>WHere the problem is, what to do?
  thanks,
  Martin</p>