Report Designer fails to open with a 'Windows cannot find java\bin\javaw' error — what Java version does Report Designer actually need, and where do you get it?

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Report Designer ships with its own bundled JRE, located inside its own install folder (for example, under a 'java' subfolder of wherever Report Designer itself was installed) — use that bundled JRE specifically rather than trying to install a separate standalone JDK/JRE, and make sure JAVA_HOME is configured to point at it. Pointing the environment at the correct bundled JRE from Report Designer's own installation directory resolves the 'javaw not found' error.

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