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java4 installation detects java8

I'm preparing a VM with Windows XP, Java 4 and Java 8 for university projects purposes.

Before installing Java4 I first installed 7 and 8 for gradle, intellij and some other projects.

After all the installation stuff, i set my JAVA_HOME variable to

C:\Developer\SDK\Java\j2sdk1.4.2_19

and added JAVA_HOME\bin to the PATH variable.

It should all work fine, but when I opened CMD and issued 

java -version

java 8 version is printed. On the other hand, javac -version prints nothing but the help dialog.

Am I doing anything wrong?

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Solution

  • As @sev said, placing it first in the path variable solved the issue