Installing Java 8 on Windows

This chapter provides tutorial notes on installing Java 8 on your own Windows system. Topics include downloading and installing Java 8 ((Java Standard Edition Development Kit 1.8); compiling and executing Java programs.

Downloading and Installing Java 8 on Windows

Testing Java 8 Installation

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Java Tools Terminology

Installing Java 8 on Windows

 'javac' - The Java Program Compiler

 'java' - The Java Program Launcher

 'jdb' - The Java Debugger

 'jconsole' - Java Monitoring and Management Console

 'jstat' - JVM Statistics Monitoring Tool

 JVM Troubleshooting Tools

 jvisualvm (Java VisualVM) - JVM Visual Tool

 'jar' - The JAR File Tool

 'javap' - The Java Class File Disassembler

 'keytool' - Public Key Certificate Tool

 'native2ascii' - Native-to-ASCII Encoding Converter

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

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