
Let’s use the alternatives command to configure Java on your system. This command is used to create, remove, maintain and display information about the symbolic links comprising the alternatives system. The alternatives command is used for maintained symbolic links. Step 2 – Install Java 8 with Alternatives

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To download the latest Java SE Development Kit 8 release from its official download page or use following commands to download from the shell. Since then I have installed a large number of times Java on CentOS, Redhat based systems without any issues. So I decided to install Java using the compiled source code. Many times I have tried Java installation using rpm packages but I faced some issues. The Oracle team provides Java RPM packages as well as compiled source code.

It consists of a Java Virtual Machine and all of the class libraries present in the production environment, as well as additional libraries only useful to developers, and such as the internationalization libraries and the IDL libraries.IMPORTANT: Java 8 is no longer available to download publically.

The JDK also comes with a complete Java Runtime Environment, usually called a private runtime. This tool also helps manage JAR files, javadoc - the documentation generator, which automatically generates documentation from source code comments, jdb - the debugger, jps - the process status tool, which displays process information for current Java processes, javap - the class file disassembler, and so many other components. JDK has as its primary components a collection of programming tools, including javac, jar, and the archiver, which packages related class libraries into a single JAR file. Java Development Kit contains the software and tools that you need to compile, debug, and run applets and applications that you've written using the Java programming language.
