7.6.0 Windows Installer MSI - Java Home Preservation

Jason_Nunn
Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:10:05 +0000
Elasticsearch

Can I suggest an improvement to the Windows MSI Installer? Now that a compatible JDK is bundled with the installer, can the location of the JDK be controlled just like the config, logs and data folders? We have our "static location" folders located at \ELASTICSEARCH\config etc and the elasticsearch binaries at \ELASTICSEARCH\7.6.0 for example. The JDK could be relocated to \ELASTICSEARCH\JDK and editing of the location allowed. This way whenever there is an update by MSI, the installer can update JDK and we do not have to manually update the Windows Environment Variables to reflect a new path to Java in JAVA_HOME. Thanks.

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