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Bug 246308

Summary:	JDK bundle stupidity
Product:	installer	Reporter:	AllenJB
Component:	JDK bundle	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 8 x64
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description AllenJB 2014-08-06 14:26:52 UTC

When installing netbeans, I selected the 'everything' option (I primarily want a PHP ide but may also want to do the occasional bit of Java, so it seems the best option from the list).

As I'm installing, the installer displays a warning about missing JDK, but there's no detailed explanation, so I click continue. Then it asks for the JDK location, giving a link to the Oracle download site.

The Oracle download site prominently features a JDK + Netbeans bundle.

Why is this bundle not prominently on the netbeans.org download page???? (On further examination, there's a JDK bundle linked in one of the many paragraphs of small print 99.9% of users will ever bother to read).

Why can the installer (like ever other Java based IDE I've used) not simply bundle or download the JDK if required so I don't have to do anything?

The user experience here is dumb and broken. Please fix it.

Comment 1 Libor Fischmeistr 2015-03-26 14:04:05 UTC

There are some reasons, why bundles are not on the netbeans.org download page...

Also you can now download some distributions (HTML5, PHP and C++) together with JRE.

Closing as wontfix