[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBDS-1844) Automated Installer Script Does Not Recored Preferred JRE

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Automated Installer Script Does Not Recored Preferred JRE --------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBDS-1844 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-1844 Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio) Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: installer Affects Versions: 4.1.0.GA Reporter: Will Dinyes Assignee: Denis Golovin Priority: Critical Labels: new_and_noteworthy Fix For: 4.1.1.Final, 5.0.0.M4 Attachments: windows-config.xml ***Issue originally submitted through Bugzilla (Bug #736128)*** Description of problem: Automated installations of JBDS fail on Windows due to the preferred JRE location not being recorded by the graphical installer for reuse in cases where the preferred JRE is not also on the PATH. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.1.0.GA How reproducible: Easily reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Java on Windows, but do not add to PATH (this simulates a Java install that is not in the user's PATH, such as a preferred Java version, or other Java setup) [or remove Java from the user's PATH]. 2. Run the graphical installer for JBDS 4.1, being sure to indicate the location of the JRE you wish to use to run JBDS. 3. Copy out the InstallConfigRecord.xml from the installed JBDS directory for use later. 4. Note: this file does not include any setting for the selected Java JRE that was used during the install. 5. Uninstall JBDS. 6. Re-install JBDS using the command java -jar jbdevstudio*.jar InstallConfigRecord.xml to run an automated install. 7. Attempt to start JBDS, and get an issue with a missing JRE, because said JRE is not on the PATH or in the JBDS install directory. Actual results: JBDS fails to start. Expected results: JBDS starts with the user-selected JRE. Additional info: Obviously, we can work around this by adding the JRE to the PATH on Windows, but we should be able to respect the installer's setting in the recorded script, rather than ignoring input from the user. I've set this to low priority. The same process works fine on vanilla Red Hat Enterprise Linux, presumably because the install of Java via RPM automatically adds the Java executables to a user's PATH (installs to /usr/bin, or the like).