[DrJava] [ drjava-Feature Requests-682610 ] Improve tools.jar-finding heuristic on Windows

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Feature Requests item #682610, was opened at 2003-02-07 22:45
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Category: Other
Group: Small (< 1 pair-week)
Status: Open
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Charles Reis (csreis)
Assigned to: Charles Reis (csreis)
Summary: Improve tools.jar-finding heuristic on Windows

Initial Comment:
Story:
The user starts DrJava for the first time on a Windows
machine with a standard installation of the Java SDK. 
DrJava finds tools.jar without prompting the user.

Implementation:
Currently, the first time DrJava is used on *most*
Windows machines, the user is forced to specify the
location of tools.jar, even though we make a guess as
to its location.  This is because JAVA_HOME is set to
the JRE in the "Program Files" directory, rather than
the SDK in the root directory (by default).  There's no
fool proof way to find the SDK if the user installed it
somewhere else (short of a full hard drive search), but
we can do a better job of finding it in the default
location, which should work for 90% of our users.

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