


Select the Public JRE dropdown and click on This feature will not be available. as shown below.Ĭlick Next and then Close to finish installing Java. In order for Java applications to be able to run we need to setup a 'JAVA_HOME' environment variable that will point to the Java installation directory. In addition, if we want to run Java commands from a command prompt we need to setup the 'PATH' environment variable to contain the Java bin directory. When using Windows the above parameters can be configured on the Environment Variables panel. Click on the Windows Start button and enter “ env” without quotes as shown below.Įnvironment variables can be set at account level or at system level. For this example click on Edit environment variables for your account and following panel should appear.Ĭlick on the New button and enter “ JAVA_HOME” as variable name and the as variable value.

In this tutorial the installation directory is 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_172'. Click OK to to save.Ĭlick on the New button and enter “ PATH” as variable name and “ %JAVA_HOME%\bin” as variable value. Note that in case a 'PATH' variable is already present you can add “ %JAVA_HOME%\bin” at the end of the variable value. And you can switch them anytime easily.Click OK to close the environment variables panel. If you need use the different versions of Java in the same machine, you can install the different versions of Java, like Java 8 and Java 17. How to switch between different versions of Java Open a terminal, execute the following command: 1 If you download the dmg package the installation is quite simple - Double click on Zulu.dmg file and on the popup click on “Double-Click to install Zulu X.x.x.x and follow the installation. You will get links to download the setup as zip/dmg/tar.gz format - download anyone you prefer. So, let’s download the installation package firstly. Download Native Java JDKīase on openJDK, azul provide the M1 native version of JDK. If you are using M1 Macbook or Mac mini computer, you must have noticed that Java from Oracle is not yet build for M1 Silicon chip yet! It only make use of Rosetta 2, you would see that the performance will take a hit.
