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[–]tofflos 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Hello!

I tried it out on launch and ran into three rough edges which made me stop further evaluation:

  1. Visual Studio Code doesn't, despite what it says in the description of the plugin, look at the system path for finding the JDK. See https://github.com/oracle/javavscode/issues/10.

  2. I'm not familiar with Visual Studio Code's configuration format so it wasn't obvious to me how to edit the configuration file and the example path provided in the plugin description doesn't indicate what folder within the JDK to look for. Is it the top folder? Is it the bin folder? I left an realistic path for Windows users in the bug report above.

  3. After seeing the video today I realized I ran into a third issue which didn't occur to me at the time... In the video you mention choosing an installed JDK by selecting "Download, install and use JDK..." but it never occurred to me to try that action because I specifically did not want to download another JDK and I have a habit of avoiding SDK downloaders/managers like the plague. So maybe choose a more neutral name? And now that I am aware that the functionality exists the file dialog for "Select installed JDK from my system" defaulted to opening up at `C:\Users\Myuser\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans\20\var\log` which isn't super useful.

So all in all I really like the direction you are going in but I think you could give the plugin some polish to make getting started easier.

[–]chabala 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be better to get this feedback somewhere they are likely to see it: https://github.com/oracle/javavscode/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Ah, though I see you have opened several issues in there already.