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I was wondering why intellij uses IDEA_JDK to point to the java home it should use, instead of the more common JAVA_HOME?

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I was wondering why intellij uses IDEA_JDK to point to the java home it should use, instead of the more common JAVA_HOME?

Cause they might be different.

Ahmed.

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JAVA_HOME usually points to JRE rather than JDK which is unsufficient to
run IDEA due to missing tools.jar required for debugging and compiling.

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Maxim Shafirov
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I was wondering why intellij uses IDEA_JDK to point to the java home
it should use, instead of the more common JAVA_HOME?



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Alexander Broekhuis

Yeah makes sense, forgot about that one. I always have the jdk installed :)

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