I finally got around to installing the latest WebCenter and JDev today. I wasn’t quite ready to give up my old version, so I wanted an easy way to have both without any clashes.
The first step was to obviously choose a separate installation path. The less obvious piece was to set the
If you must have multiple versions installed, set the value of ide.user.dir.var to something other than the existing JDEV_USER_DIR. This can be done my modifying [MIDDLEWARE_HOME]/jdeveloper/jdev/bin/jdev.boot and setting a new value there, then set a location for the new value. In my case, I used:
ide.user.dir.var = JDEV11.1.1.7_USER_HOME,JDEV11.1.1.7_USER_DIR
and set the environment variable:
JDEV11.1.1.7_USER_DIR=E:\JDEV11.1.1.7
I’m too lazy to put the environment variable screenshots here for those that need them, but someone already did at http://adfhowto.blogspot.com/2011/02/change-jdeveloper-system-directory.html
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