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Install components selection panel: Why do I have to install WTK when I already have it installed? ---------- This is quite difficult to manage as there are many potential obstacles. There's no certain way to find whether WTK is already installed (and installed correctly). Out-of-the-box experience for novice users must be kept the way it is - working from installation. It's better to have 1 customer wondering 'Why do I have to install WTK when I have one already?' than to have 100 asking 'Why can't I debug/compile/run from the start?' --------- Suggested fix: Have WTK installation optional during setup.
reassigning
might be fixed by NBI installer
*** Issue 114974 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
- Please also give the choice to install WTK in it's preferred location: Program Files\Java\WTKxxx\. - Please allow usage and/or update of just existing WTK and don't double-install in NetBeans path.
Another reason to have only ONE WTK on the machine in it's preferred location: The emulators store persistent data e.g. javax.microedition.rms.RecordStore in the workspace of it's WTK. This will be lost if NetBeans uses it's own WTK. If each NetBeans version has it's own WTK, the persistent data in the workspace of another version's WTK is not accessible. Thanks for increasing priority.
Solving this issue would also solve the possible import settings problem described in issue 124047.
Solving this issue would also solve the problems described in issue 129610.