Downloading and Installing Java 8 on Windows

Java Tools Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes - Version 5.32, by Dr. Herong Yang

Java Tools Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟Downloading and Installing Java 8 on Windows

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.

Open the Java SE Download page with this URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/.
Click the download button next to "Java Platform (JDK) 8". You will see a new page with a list of different download files of JDK 8.
Locate the "Java SE Development Kit 8" section.
Click the hyper link of "jdk-8-windows-i586.exe", next to "Windows x86 - 151.68 MB".
Save jdk-8-windows-i586.exe to a temporary directory.
Double-click on jdk-8-windows-i586.exe to start the installation wizard.
The installation wizard will guide you to finish the installation.

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

C:\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)

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Java Tools Terminology

►Installing Java 8 on Windows

►Downloading and Installing Java 8 on Windows

Testing Java 8 Installation

'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