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[jira] [Commented] (MNG-6003) Drastically reduce JAVA_HOME discovery code

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Hudson commented on MNG-6003:
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SUCCESS: Integrated in maven-3.x #1261 (See [https://builds.apache.org/job/maven-3.x/1261/])
[MNG-6003] Drastically reduce JAVA_HOME discovery code (michaelo: rev 6c4627bd463dc080cb00c01a27b4ff830cbd5702)
* apache-maven/src/bin/mvn
* apache-maven/src/bin/mvn.cmd


> Drastically reduce JAVA_HOME discovery code
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-6003
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6003
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Command Line
>    Affects Versions: 3.3.9
>            Reporter: Michael Osipov
>            Assignee: Michael Osipov
>             Fix For: 3.4.0
>
>
> Our [installation documentation|https://maven.apache.org/install.html] several times requires that {{JAVA_HOME}} is set and points to a valid JDK. Though, tens of lines in {{mvn}} and {{mvn.cmd}} perform some magic to discover it when it is not set. This completely contradicts our requirement that {{JAVA_HOME}} must be set.
> We can drastically reduce this code by checking if {{JAVA_HOME}} is set and use it, if not perform {{which java}} and use that to run Maven. Not adhering to our requirements is deemed to undefined behavior. A developer must be able to set this simple env var properly. In most cases on Unix/Linux OpenJDK is installed anyway which means that {{which java}} points to a JDK anyway. For instance, the {{JAVA_HOME}} discovery on FreeBSD competely fails and sets it to {{/usr/local}} because {{/usr/local/bin/java}} is actually a wrapper script.



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