org.jboss.tools.runtime.ui.prefs mysteriously appears in Eclipse dir during JBDS BYOE installation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-19697 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19697 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: runtime-detection Affects Versions: 4.3.0.Alpha2 Reporter: Martin Malina Assignee: Snjezana Peco Fix For: 4.3.0.Beta1 Attachments: pref-recorder.png, preference-recorder.png When I install JBDs 9.0.0.Alpha2 B24 BYOE into new Eclipse Mars M6 and new workspace, during the installation, suddenly the runtime detection config appears inside my Eclipse isntall dir: {code} $ find Eclipse-runtime-test.app/ -name 'org.jboss.tools.runtime.*.prefs' Eclipse-runtime-test.app//Contents/Eclipse/configuration/.settings/org.jboss.tools.runtime.ui.prefs {code} This is inside the file: {code} $ find Eclipse-runtime-test.app/ -name 'org.jboss.tools.runtime.*.prefs'|xargs cat eclipse.preferences.version=1 runtimePaths=<?xml version\="1.0" encoding\="UTF-8" standalone\="no"?>\n<runtimePaths version\="2">\n <runtimePath path\="/Users/rasp/jbossqa/runtimes/jboss-eap-6.3.0" scanOnEveryStartup\="false" timestamp\="-1">\n <serverDefinitions>\n <serverDefinition description\="" enabled\="true" location\="/Users/rasp/jbossqa/runtimes/jboss-eap-6.3.0" name\="JBoss EAP 6.3" type\="EAP" version\="6.3">\n <included/>\n </serverDefinition>\n </serverDefinitions>\n </runtimePath>\n</runtimePaths>\n {code} It contains /Users/rasp/jbossqa/runtimes/jboss-eap-6.3.0 which I use regularly when testing server tooling. But how did this happen? I looked for the pref file before I started BYOE installation. Then a bit later, a few minutes into the installation, I checked again and the file is there now. Can somebody explain what's going on? Note: This happened to me yesterday and it surprised me, but I wasn't sure if it wasn't my mistake somehow. But Max preferred I try again, so I did. And it is happening again now.