Windows Installation for JAVA SDK/SRE

Open Source Software Downloads Sites:

Before you start learning Java Programming make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of the SDK/JDK as well as the JRE from

(1) Sun Website:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs.html.

or

(2) Oracle Website:
http://www.oracle.com


Windows Installation and Setup:

Follow these instructions if you are running Windows operating systems(OS).

(1) Run the SDK installer program. If you install JDK in the default directory, a folder named jdk(version no.) will be created on your C drive.

(2) Update the PATH variable. The PATH variable tells your system which directories to look in when running commands or .EXE files. Setting the PATH variable allows you to easily compile and run your Java programs from any directory. Before you do this, you need to verify where your SDK’s bin folder is. If you used the default installation directory, the path is C:\jdk(version no.)\bin. If you installed to a different directory, you need to find the jdk(version no.) directory, which will contain the bin directory.