Outdated: Downloading and Installing Java 8

This section describes how to download and install Java 8 (Java Standard Edition Development Kit 1.8) on Windows.

To learn Java tools, you have to get a copy of JDK (Java Development Kit) installed on your machine. The latest version of JDK is JDK 1.8 (Java SE Development Kit 1.8), which is also called Java SE 8 (Java Standard Edition 8). Here is what I did to download and install JDK 1.8 on my local machine.

To test the installation, open a command window to try the java command. If you are getting the following output, your installation is ok:

herong> \progra~1\java\jdk1.8.0\bin\java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode, sharing)

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Java Tools Terminology

 Java Tools Included in JDK

 javac - The Java Program Compiler

 jar - The JAR File Tool

 jlink - The JRE Linker

 jmod - The JMOD File Tool

 jimage - The JIMAGE File Tool

 jpackage - Binary Package Builder

 java - The Java Program Launcher

 jdeps - The Java Class Dependency Analyzer

 jdeprscan - The Java Deprecated API Scanner

 jdb - The Java Debugger

 jcmd - The JVM Diagnostic Tool

 jconsole - Java Monitoring and Management Console

 jstat - JVM Statistics Monitoring Tool

 JVM Troubleshooting Tools

 jhsdb - The Java HotSpot Debugger

 jvisualvm (Java VisualVM) - JVM Visual Tool

 jmc - Java Mission Control

 javap - The Java Class File Disassembler

 keytool - Public Key Certificate Tool

 jarsigner - JAR File Signer

 jshell - Java Language Shell

 jrunscript - Script Code Shell

 serialver - serialVersionUID Generator

 native2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Encoding Converter

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 Outdated: JDK 1.6 keytool - keystore File Tool

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 Outdated: JDK 1.5 keytool - keystore File Tool

 References

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