The java.home variable defined in VS Code settings points to a missing folder

[danieltedev]

The java.home variable defined in VS Code settings points to a missing folder

Environment

• Operating System: windows 7 64
• JDK version: jdk1.8.0_191
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.28.2
• Java extension version: 0.33.0

Steps To Reproduce

user settings vscode: "java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161"
system environment variable: name variable = JAVA_HOME / value variable = c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191
system environment variable: name variable = JDK_HOME / value variable = c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191

error: The java.home variable defined in VS Code settings points to a missing folder

I have already taken a look at all the problems already reported but I did not find a solution, can you help me?

[snjeza]

You can try the following;

"java.home": "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_191\\",

[Inukares]

Below worked for me.

"java.home": "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_191",

As vsCode docs say, on Windows you have to escape "\" character while setting java.home json in vsCode's settings.

[danieltedev]

good morning, i already tried "java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191\" but not working @snjeza....
thank for helping me!!!

I going continue trying

sorry for my english

[fbricon]

@danieltedev did you try to use double backslashes? (\\)

[danieltedev]

sorry my message removed the double backslashes, but yes, I used double backslashes

[fbricon]

have you tried using forward slashes (/) instead?
"java.home": "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_191"?

[Inukares]

You say that you've set the settings in vsCode to point to \jdk1.8.0_161, but in env variable you have \jdk1.8.0_191
Maybe you wrote wrong sdk version?

[danieltedev]

I sorry, I should have talked about all the tests I did....

I already tried:
"java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191\",
"java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191"
"java.home": "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_191/",
"java.home": "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_191",

[Agredo]

I have the same problem. Cant use Java in VS Code.

[danieltedev]

Sorry I figured out what I did wrong, I put the settings inside the workspace and for this reason it was not working.

[apsmono]

what did you mean by this??

Sorry I figured out what I did wrong, I put the settings inside the workspace and for this reason it was not working.

[vintprox]

Bruh. I set following in User Settings:

    "java.home": "C:\\Program Files\\RedHat\\java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.222-4"

But it still cannot locate actually installed JDK.

Using path to Java SE Development Kit C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk-13.0.1 doesn't help either.

[iaxat]

Same problem

[ditordccaa]

I had the same problem. What I did additionally is setting the environment variable too.
export JAVA_HOME=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_131
and it worked.
Cheers,