Didn't track it down, but as I was playing with something recently, I saw
this is working in 1.609.3 but not in the latest LTS.
I'll see if I can bisect it.

2015-12-09 16:23 GMT+01:00 Eugen Paraschiv <[email protected]>:

> Yes, Maven is exactly in the same situation - I don't see any dropdown to
> select from, only a raw text field.
> I opened a JIRA to track this:
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-31977
> The way I solved it was to install the tools locally and then, in Jenkins,
> not use any installer, just point to the local tool.
> Cheers,
> Eugen.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Mark Waite <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I've seen a similar behavior with other tools and recent versions of Java
>> 8.  For example, when I define that maven 3.3.9 should be downloaded from
>> apache, sometimes it shows the pick list, and other times it does not.
>> Likewise, when I define that ant 1.9.6 should be downloaded from apache,
>> sometimes it shows the pick list, other times it does not.  The same
>> happens to me with the JDK installers.
>>
>> My temporary work around was to host the tool installers that I need on a
>> locally hosted http server.
>>
>> I believe the same behavior does not happen with Java 7, though I am not
>> 100% certain of that.
>>
>> Mark Waite
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:37 AM Eugen Paraschiv <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm configuring my newly installed Jenkins server (v1.640, running in a
>>> Tomcat 8 on an Ubuntu box) - and I'm trying to install the JDK within
>>> Jenkins.
>>> I went with the "Install from java.sun.com" installer, filled in my
>>> Oracle account credentials, but now it's asking me to "Define JDK ID" with
>>> no auto-complete options and no hint of what that ID should be.
>>> I can think of a few options here: 1.8.0_66, JDK 8, etc - but without a
>>> clear indication of what that ID should be, I can't know for sure.
>>> Is this the way this installation should work, or am I missing
>>> something?
>>> Also - a minor question - shouldn't the option be called "Install from
>>> oracle.com"?
>>> Cheers,
>>> Eugen.
>>>
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