Hi, I have a problem with the java home configuration when I work with Netbeans
10 (but I guess that also other versions are affected).
- In my company we still use JDK 8 so I configured the JAVA_HOME system
variable to point to the JDK 8 folder. This configuration seems correct, I can
see from the prompt that typing java -version the correct version of java is
taken in account.
- NetBeans 10 "requires" (prefers) Java 11 so I downloaded the OpenJDK11,
extracted it on a folder and configured the path on the netbeans.conf file
(netbeans_jdkhome="D:\java\jdk11") also this configuration seems to be ok.
- One of the maven project on which I'm working (remind we use java 8) has an
external dependency like this:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
<version>${jdk.version}</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
The problem is that ${java.home} is translated using the netbeans_jdkhome
path and not the system JAVA_HOME variable so it points to jdk 11 and not jdk 8
and it doesn't find the path.
In Netbeans Java Platform Manager I have both the java version jdk 8 and jdk
11(default) but the default version can't be changed.
How can I workaround this limitation so that I can work on the maven project
using the jdk 8 home?
Kind regards,
