Installing the Java Development Kit
Jean‐Michel Réveillac · 2017
Installing the Java Development Kit A2.1. Why Java?Presented in May 1995 and developed by J. Gosling and P. Naughton of Sun Microsystems, Java is an object-oriented programming language.It is now owned by Oracle which bought Sun in 2009.Java's slogan is WORA "Write once, run anywhere".By now, you will have understood that one of the main advantages of Java is its portability.You take your source code and you compile it once and it can then be used on any platform (Microsoft Windows, Linux, OSX, etc.) Another important advantage is the fact that it is free.When you download Java, you are able to access the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).It is made up of Java Virtual Machine (JVM), standard classes and Java libraries.JVM interprets the Java bytecode, controls how it interacts with the operating system and manages memory.The JVE relates to the running of the Java software and makes it possible to run a Java application.Java Development Kit (JDK) is the development kit for the Java language.It incorporates, among others, the compilation tools and the debugger.Modeling and Simulation of Logistics Flows 2: Dashboards, Traffic Planning and Management, First Edition.