diff --git a/templates/etc_default_elasticsearch b/templates/etc_default_elasticsearch
index cb1e9248c5f8918c313707739631363df1ce7585..0030bfe10e58ded86e26959165f2329b83e848b4 100644
--- a/templates/etc_default_elasticsearch
+++ b/templates/etc_default_elasticsearch
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #ES_HOME=/usr/share/elasticsearch
 
 # Elasticsearch Java path
-#JAVA_HOME=
+JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-{{ java_version }}-oracle/jre
 
 # Elasticsearch configuration directory
 ES_PATH_CONF=/etc/elasticsearch