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Assumptions: An Oracle JDK has been installed. The JDK was installed to the default directory. Setup steps Open Windows Explorer. In the navigation pane on the left right click on This PC (or Computer for older Windows versions). There is a shorter way without using the explorer in...

There have been many releases of Java since the original Java 1.0 release in 1995. (Refer to Java version history for a summary.) However most releases have passed their official End Of Life dates. This means that the vendor (typically Oracle now) has ceased new development for the release, and n...

Java release naming is a little confusing. There are actually two systems of naming and numbering, as shown in this table: JDK versionMarketing namejdk-1.0JDK 1.0jdk-1.1JDK 1.1jdk-1.2J2SE 1.2......jdk-1.5J2SE 1.5 rebranded Java SE 5jdk-1.6Java SE 6jdk-1.7Java SE 7jdk-1.8Java SE 8jdk-91Java SE 9 (n...

A JDK installation and a text editor are the bare minimum for Java development. (It is nice to have a text editor that can do Java syntax highlighting, but you can do without.) However for serious development work it is recommended that you also use the following: A Java IDE such as Eclipse, In...

Using the Package Manager JDK and/or JRE releases for OpenJDK or Oracle can be installed using the package manager on most mainstream Linux distribution. (The choices that are available to you will depend on the distro.) As a general rule, the procedure is to open terminal window and run the comm...

Only Oracle JDKs and JREs are available for Windows platforms. The installation procedure is straight-forward: Visit the Oracle Java Downloads page: Click on either the JDK button, the JRE button or the Server JRE button. Note that to develop using Java you need JDK. To know the difference betw...

Oracle Java 7 and Java 8 Java 7 and Java 8 for macOS are available from Oracle. This Oracle page answers a lot of questions about Java for Mac. Note that Java 7 prior to 7u25 have been disabled by Apple for security reasons. In general, Oracle Java (Version 7 and later) requires an Intel-based Mac...

Using Alternatives Many Linux distributions use the alternatives command for switching between different versions of a command. You can use this for switching between different versions of Java installed on a machine. In a command shell, set $JDK to the pathname of a newly installed JDK; e.g....

After installing a Java SDK, it is advisable to check that it is ready to use. You can do this by running these two commands, using your normal user account: $ java -version $ javac -version These commands print out the version information for the JRE and JDK (respectively) that are on your sh...

Follow the below steps to install Oracle JDK from the latest tar file: Download the latest tar file from here - Current latest is Java SE Development Kit 8u112. You need sudo privilages: sudo su Create a dir for jdk install: mkdir /opt/jdk Extract downloaded tar into it: t...