After installing Bamboo (on Windows), Bamboo automatically detects and assigns the JRE executables of a JDK installation rather than the JDK executables.

When you install a JDK on windows, it usually installs a JDK and JRE component to the following paths:

• C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_10
• C:\Java\jre6

When Bamboo automatically detects the presence of local JDKs (after having installed a JDK and Bamboo on Windows), Bamboo appears to assign these locally detected JDKs the path to the JRE executables of the JDK installation (for example, C:\Java\jre6), rather than the path to the JDK executables instead (i.e. C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_10).

I'm not sure if this happens on other operating systems.