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Description
Describe the bug
I am using this devcontainer sample:
https://github.com/martinlippert/codespaces-spring-test
I added a setting to specify the exact JDK for the Spring Boot tooling to use here:
https://github.com/martinlippert/codespaces-spring-test/blob/main/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json#L22
With that line, the JDK is found in a reliable way by the Spring Boot extension, but it is somewhat cumbersome that users have to specify this, even though the java.home
setting is there automatically and works for the Java extension.
The interesting case here is:
- when I run the Codespaces workspace in a browser (Chrome in my case), the Spring Boot extension picks up the right JDK (the same as the java.home is pointing to). If I connect my desktop installation of VSCode to that Codespace, it cannot start the extension. If I add that the JDK config explicitly, it works, but not without it.
We should really try to make this work out-of-the-box for both scenarios (browser + desktop) for the standard Codespaces java workspace - without requiring the user to add the config manually.