save java output to a kshell variable

[zb cong]

hello
see my following code, i want to save the output of "java .." to a variable in the kshell:

echo $(java -version) | read appMsg
echo $appMsg


but it don't work, who can give me some suggestions, thanks in advance.

[Mahesh Rana]

appMsg=`java -version`
echo $appMsg

[zb cong]

thanks for your answer, but it still don't works, if change to following, it works

appMsg=$(java -version 2>&1)