How to prepare the MacBook Pro for Java development and more.Promotion. Efficiently manage your coding bookmarks, aka #codingmarks, on and share your hidden gems with the world. They are published weekly on. You can help us build THE programming-resources location - Well, I’ve recently gone to the “silver” side and acquired a MacBook Pro to use it for development when I am not at my PC. By development I mean here mainly Java + Javascript development.
Java Development Kit for Mac is a cross-platform SDK platform to provide specific implementation of Java SE, Java EE and Java ME platforms. Key contents include: Additional Libraries (In the lib/ subdirectory) Additional class libraries and support files required by the development tools. How to Install the Java Software Development Kit. In this Article: Article Summary Downloading the Java Software Development Kit Installing on macOS Installing on Windows Installing from an Archive on Linux or Solaris Installing from a Package on Linux Community Q&A Before you can create and modify Java programs, you’ll need the Java Software Development Kit.
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So I’ve written this post to remember what I had to install/configure to achieve this goal. I need to mention that until now I’ve been a user of Windows (XP/7) and Linux (Ubuntu/Mint/Cent OS) operation systems. At the time of this writing MacBook Pro runs on OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.5. The new version El Capitan was available, but I didn’t do the upgrade first because it had to many bad reviews. Contents.
JDK So first things first- installe a Java Development Kit ( JDK), which is a software development environment used for developing Java applications and applets. It includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), an interpreter/loader (java), a compiler (javac), an archiver (jar), a documentation generator (javadoc) and other tools needed in Java development. Download the Mac OS X x64 files version. You can find out where the JDK is installed, by executing the /usr/libexec/javahome -v 1.7, on the terminal command: Adrians-MacBook-Pro:ama ama$ /usr/libexec/javahome -v 1.8 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.065.jdk/Contents/Home Adrians-MacBook-Pro:ama ama$ /usr/libexec/javahome -v 1.7 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.079.jdk/Contents/Home Adrians-MacBook-Pro:ama ama$ You will need to know this when setting up a project in IntelliJ for example. Set JAVAHOME JAVAHOME is just a convention, usually used by Tomcat, other Java EE app servers and build tools such as Maven to find where Java lives.