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support relative paths when configuring jdk #4318
Description
my project's jdk is located in a directory relative to the project root, but specifying a relative path does not seem to be supported:
{
"java.jdt.ls.java.home": "./jdk"
// also doesn't work:
// "java.jdt.ls.java.home": "${workspaceFolder}/jdk"
}it would be nice if i could do this because it would allow me to commit this in my workspace settings.json so that others working on my project don't have to configure the path to their jdk manually, since it's located in the same spot for everybody
Reacted by Henrik Karlsson and Attempt3035
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ineentho commentedon Jan 30, 2026
I have the same issue. We use mise for managing our java version, and mise-vscode supports symlinking the configured jdk to .vscode/mise-tools/java.
For reference both the python and node extensions already support expanding the workspaceFolder.
it would be nice if we could do the same here.