Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit Installation Guide Downloading

Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit Installation Guide

Downloading Java Development Kit

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer If you do not have JDK setup, follow these instructions to download – – – – Go to the link http: //java. sun. com/javase/downloads/index. jsp Under the Section “Java SE Development Kit (JDK) ” Click on Download Button (on the next page) Select Platform (like Windows) Check the License Agreement checkbox Click on Continue button (normally download begins after this stage, but sometimes it ask for a few other options) – In the middle of the (visible) page there would be a link under section Java SE Development Kit x. Uyy (i. e 6 U 16) – Right click on the Link save target as (define path where you want to save your download)

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer

Java Development Kit (JDK) Downloading JDK Installer

Installing Java Development Kit

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation Double Click the JDK setup, which you have downloaded

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation Click on Accept button on License Agreement dialogue box

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation Keep the Default Setting (recommended) Keep the ‘Install to’ path as default (recommended) Click on ‘Next’ button

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation The Installation would begin now Please wait for a while, until the setup would finish the Installation

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation Once the Installation is Finished Click on ‘Finish’ button to complete the setup

Java Development Kit (JDK) JDK Installation Java Development Kit - jdk 1. 6_x Now Install the downloaded JDK as any other software Say You have installed it on normal path C: Program FilesJavajdk 1. 6. 0_15 The Important thing is to setup the Environmental Variables for JDK. Follow the coming steps to Set your Environmental Variables correctly…

Setting Environmental Variables for Java Development Kit

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables Right Click on you’re My Computer Icon and Click on Properties option

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables System Properties Dialogue Box would be displayed:

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables Select Advanced Tab Click on Environmental Variable button

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables A separate “Environmental Variables” Dialogue box would appear Which already contains two types of Values, , i. e. User Variables for user_xyz, and System Variables (or Global variables) We would set our Desired Variables in User Variable Section To set a User level Environmental Variable Click on New button, below the User Variable Section

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables Environmental Variable JAVA_HOME When You click on New button, a dialogue box would appear which would be having two fields ‘Variable name’ and ‘Variable value’ In ‘Variable name’ field, put the value ‘JAVA_HOME’ (case sensitive) and in ‘Variable value’ field the value would be full path of Jdk Installation (where ever you have installed it) for example, In my case, it would be C: Program FilesJavajdk 1. 6. 0_15 Then click on OK button

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables Environmental Variable Path In ‘Variable name’ field, put the value ‘Path’ and in ‘Variable value’ field value would be %JAVA_HOME%bin Remember this %JAVA_HOME% is the reference to the environmental variable we have set previously, , and here the value would be %JAVA_HOME% followed by bin (don’t skip or ignore the backslash ‘’) Then click on OK button

Java Development Kit (JDK) Setting JDK Environmental Variables Environmental Variable classpath In ‘Variable name’ field, put the value ‘classpath’ The value field would actually contain three values separated by semicolon ‘; ’ and they are: . (a dot), JDK library path and JRE library path Thus the value would be like. ; %JAVA_HOME%lib; %JAVA_HOME%jrelib (it’s like dot ‘. ’ followed by semicolon ‘; ’ then %JAVA_HOME% followed by lib followed by another semicolor ‘; ’ then %JAVA_HOME% followed by jrelib (note backslashes carefully) Then click on OK button

Java Development Kit Downloading and Installation Guide Prepared by: Virtual University Open Source Software Community (VOSS Com. ) vosscom@vu. edu. pk VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY OF PAKISTAN