vscode-java: Unable to find JDK 8, it exists, eclipse has no issue, path is correct

@attiand can you try the following:

"java.home": "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk/"

or

"java.home": "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0/"

I removed Oracle JDK 8 and update-alternatives uses /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64, then it works. 😕

I’ve also got the problem.

Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS JDK version: OpenJDK 11 Visual Studio Code version: 1.26.1 Java extension version: 0.29.0 JAVA_HOME=“/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64”

The JAVA_HOME environment variable does not point to a JDK.

@akurtakov does it look like your issue?

@fbricon the exception is:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-5.b14.fc27.x86_64'
code: "ENOENT"
errno: -2
message: "ENOENT: no such file or directory, access '/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-5.b14.fc27.x86_64'"
path: "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-5.b14.fc27.x86_64"

@snjeza I added the following

        let javaHome = process.env['JAVA_HOME'];
        console.log(`JAVA_HOME: ${javaHome}`);
        console.log('pathExists: ' + pathExists.sync(javaHome));
        console.log('pathExists - 2: ' + pathExists.sync('/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk/'));
        console.log('pathExists - 3: ' + pathExists.sync('/usr/lib/jvm/'));
        console.log('pathExists - 4: ' + pathExists.sync('/home/mattias/'));      

which prints (note the last line which I have drwx------ access to):

JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-5.b14.fc27.x86_64
pathExists: false
pathExists - 2: false
pathExists - 3: false
pathExists - 4: true

The following ordinary javascript:

'use strict';
var pathExists = require("path-exists");
var javaHome = process.env['JAVA_HOME'];
console.log("JAVA_HOME: " + javaHome);
console.log('pathExists: ' + pathExists.sync(javaHome));
console.log('pathExists - 2: ' + pathExists.sync('/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk/'));
console.log('pathExists - 3: ' + pathExists.sync('/usr/lib/jvm/'));
console.log('pathExists - 4: ' + pathExists.sync('/home/mattias/'));        

prints:

;node test.js 
JAVA_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-0.b14.fc27.x86_64
pathExists: true
pathExists - 2: true
pathExists - 3: true
pathExists - 4: true

@Coderah @AriHrannar please give 0.1.0 a try, and if the problem still persists, open the VS Code Developer Tools to see why the extension fails to start.