How to Download and Install Java SE JDK 8 on Windows 10

In this article, We are going to perform How to Download and Install Java SE JDK 8 on Windows 10.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Java is a set of software and specifications developed at Sun Microsystems. There are two tyes of Java Platforms are JDK (Java Development Kit) and JRE (Java Runtime Environment). Both are helpful for deploying applications on servers and debugging, JVM monitoring,developing.

Java 8 Features:

Java 8 provides following features,

ForEach() method
Functional interfaces
Base64 Encode Decode
Parallel array sorting
Nashorn JavaScript Engine,
Parallel Array Sorting
Type and Repating Annotations
java.lang and java.util Packages

To know more detailed features go through this link.

Prerequisites

Windows 10 OS
RDP access with administrator privileges

Step 1: Download Oracle Java SE JDK 8

Generally Oracle will not allow to download directly without accepting their licences. We have to create one account in Oracle java website by your personal or official mail. After accepting licence download the application from browser to local machine.

This link takes you to the Oracle home website Oracel Java SRE.

Once you opened above link goto “Java SE Development Kit 8u241” section, click on “Accept License Agreement” Radio button and download ” jdk-8u241-windows-x64.exe” setup for Windows 10.

Step 2: Run the Java SE JDK 8 Installer and Install Java SE JDK 8 on Windows 10

Next Click on downloaded JDK 8 exe file and click on Next

Click on Next

You will see like below progress screen

It will ask for Destination path to Install Java SE JDK 8, Click on Next

You will see like below Installation progress.

Once the installation completed, you will see below screen, click on close.

Step 3: Setting the JAVA Environment Variables

follow below steps to set JAVA Environment Variables. Right Click on the This PC(My Computer) and click on properties

Click on Advanced system settings

Click on Environment Variables under Advanced tab.

Click on New under User Variables

Type PATH in the Variable name.

Copy the path of bin folder where Java SE JDK 8 installed (C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_241\bin)

Paste Path of bin folder( C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_241\bin) in Variable value and click on OK Button

To check if Java Environment variables is set, Go to command prompt and type javac command.

You will see like below screen.

Conclusion

In this article, We have downloaded Oracle Java 8 from official site, How to Download and Install Java SE JDK 8 on Windows 10, configured JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME, verified installed version.