How to Install Java Development Kit(JDK) on Windows
1 min readFeb 27, 2019
For developing Java applications you need to install JDK on your machine. For that, you should complete the following steps.
- You must download the latest JDK from this url for Windows.
- If you download the .exe file, you can double click and install the JDK on your machine.
- After installation process is done you must add JAVA_HOME to PATH variables.
- For that, you should define a JAVA_HOME variable. Its value should be JDK root folder like “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk___VERSION”.
- After you create JAVA_HOME variable, you can add to PATH as “%JAVA_HOME%\bin”.
- To control this process you can open command prompt on Windows and write following command.
java -version
- If you see the following image, it means JDK installed correctly.