Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Burse Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JDK 1.8.0_20 and JDK 1.7.0_67 released Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:43:35 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <6dv7v9p4lrb9fv2h6g9kft59dhum8pnqn3@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net QWSR1tFwYifx34I4uAuAbDphIQmXc8GzEO/v7WFbHB1mTKS53m19cFXx2A+jE3DnoXidZ5PfKhJxVVd0V+iotg== NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="S+uXjJwXLmcRWMoSyUdj6N+M7ocILdXxfzTwGM7ge7s8rOnrstoDEi8eRIypVKchOaCzHpEaUKienmRes659XcRVcXgc/kvlEu/Q/G+RhvZchaUl5Ef2FmVH+CQj5DlY"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:urQeh3xviNEhBbKTEAjDfgL1x7E= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29780 Hi, I have multiple JDKs installed. Isn't there a, possibly registry based, API, that some tools use to figure out the JDKs location? This API is not broken? Bye Wayne schrieb: > On 8/21/2014 4:18 AM, Jan Burse wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Roedy Green schrieb: >>> They have changed the name of the directory where the JRE is >>> installed. It used to be: >>> C:\Program Files\Java\jre8 >>> now it is: >>> C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_20 >> >> The path can be changed during the install process >> by the installer GUI. Never did this before. Lets >> see whether it works. > > The installer doesn't add the new directory to PATH. > I just installed into ...\Java\jre8, it seems to work. > If you use the default (with a full version number), > remember to manually update PATH. >