Why doesn't the J2EE SDK 1.4 automatically set up and install the JRE?

StormRider

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In the past, I've installed the J2SE SDK 1.4 on my systems to play around with Java development.

For my new system, I decided to download and install the J2EE SDK 1.4 instead because it's supposed to include J2SE SDK.

After installing it, I noticed that it is in the directories. However, when I tried to compile a java program from the command line, it wouldn't do it because the PATH envirornment variable wasn't set. No biggie, but there were other problems too. I couldn't install Netbeans because it didn't detect a java VM environment.

Anyways, I ended up installing the J2SE SDK and it set up everything for me (Runtime Engine, and Browser plugin). After that everything works fine.

But the JSEE SDK had all of the same files so it feels like I'm wasting disk space.

Why doesn't the J2EE SDK set up things like the J2SE SDK? I was expecting the J2EE SDK to be just like the J2SE SDK except that it supports more things like J2EE stuff.