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Re: Netbeans question?

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Date 2013-02-22 15:25 -0800
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Subject Re: Netbeans question?
From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

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Knute Johnson wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> What program uses JAVA_HOME?
> 
>> Seriously?
> 
>> A zillion of them. It's the convention.
> 
>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+program+uses+JAVA_HOME

> I do most of my development on Windows and it certainly isn't required 
> to make the compiler or runtime function there.  I'm pretty sure I've 
> never set it on my Linux box either.  From the link you posted I see 
> that ant uses it but I don't see anything else except Glassfish.

That search gives links that also show that Maven, Eclipse, "Many Java applications" or "A lot of 
well behaving [sic] Java applications" (per a few of the links), JBoss, Macintosh, NetBeans, IBM Java, 
FreeBSD, Tomcat, the Android tools, shell scripts, and others use JAVA_HOME.

PEBKAC.

-- 
Lew

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