Java Development Kit (JDK)

Submitted by Pieter De Graef on Tue, 17/03/2009 - 11:41

The Java Development Kit is needed to run the back-end application server or servlet engine (Tomcat, JBoss, ...).

If you don't have a JDK installed yet, follow these instructions:
  • Download the installer: jdk-6u11-windows-i586-p.exe (latest available version at the time of writing)
  • Run the installer by double-clicking on it
  • The following dialog shows up:
  • Click on Accept and continue
  • Choose Next and continue
  • Just continue through the remaining dialogs until the default installation finishes
  • After you have installed the Java Development Kit, make sure that the environment variable JAVA_HOME points to your installation directory: 
    C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_11 (see below)

  • That's it !