



In order to install JVM 8, you have to sign-up to download the installer. Oracle in recent time changed their licensing policy.

Unless you properly configure Java, trying to run the program will throw error 13. Configuring/editing the PATH makes a particular version active. One Windows machine may need to have JDK 11, JDK 8 etc. Often, many of the developmental tools support specific version of Oracle JDK (same goes to JDK from the other distributions). Basics on JVM has been already discussed and we will not repeat. In this guide, we will discuss the steps to correctly install JDK 8 and configure the PATH. JDK 8 is often among the prerequisites of various developmental tools. We should note that before this long-running project, there were JDK Release Projects that released one feature and were then discontinued.In our one guide we have shown how to install JDK 11 on Windows. And, just like for Oracle, the JDK Project will also deliver new feature releases every six months. Initially, it was based only on the JDK 7, but since Java 10, the open-source reference implementation of the Java SE platform is the responsibility of the JDK Project. We should emphasize that OpenJDK is an official reference implementation of a Java Standard Edition since version SE 7. Note: the versions in italics are no longer supported. Let's take a look at the Java SE history: Oracle strongly recommends using the term JDK to refer to the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit (there are also Enterprise Edition and Micro Edition platforms). It's thus named because it contains more tools than the standalone JRE, as well as the other components needed for developing Java applications. It contains a complete Java Runtime Environment, a so-called private runtime. JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment used in Java platform programming.
