paulp/sbt-extras — pull request #19 by djspiewak (2012-02-20 21:52:05+00:00)
Title: Respect JAVA_HOME over the PATH configuration (if JAVA_HOME is set).

Generally speaking, Java build tools pull from JAVA_HOME *first* and then PATH if JAVA_HOME is unset. Aside from the mere convention, this makes it much easier to force SBT to use a different version of JAVA without having to entirely reconfigure one's local environment.