This section describes how to install JDK 7 Documentation on your own machine.
To learn JDK more effectively, you definitely need to have a copy of the JDK Documentation installed on your own machine.
JDK Documentation provides you detailed information of all classes and methods used in JDK.
Here is what I did to download and install JDK 7 Documentation on my local machine.
Open the Java download home page with this URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/.
Click the "DOWNLOAD" button next to "Java SE 7 Documentation".
You will see "Java SE Development Kit 7 Documentation" page showing up.
Check the "Accept License Agreement" radio button.
Click the hyper link of "jdk-7u6-apidocs.zip" in the "JDK 7u6 API documentation 57.6 MB" line.
Save the download file "jdk-7u6-apidocs.zip" to a temporary directory.
Double-click on "jdk-7u6-apidocs.zip" to extract all files
to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_07 directory.
The installation of JDK 7 Documentation is done.
To verify the installation, open the C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_07\docs\index.html with IE (Internet Explorer).
You should see the JDK 7 Documentation starting page as shown in this picture:
Click the JDBC link on the JDK 6 Documentation page to see what documentations are available for JDBC.
