Installing Java manually on Windows? [duplicate]

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How can I get the latest JRE / JDK as a zip file rather than EXE or MSI installer? [closed] (30 answers)

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I have seen many products bundeled with JDK, I wonder if there is a way where one can install JDK by simply unzipping contents to a directory, so there is no icon created in add/remove programs, no registry entries etc.

Also in this case: How can we configure Java plugin for browsers? And how can we configure settings as seen via Control Panel entry for Java?

Answer 1

Yes, you can create a zipped up JDK, unzip it on the target machine and run java, javac, etc. from that directory to your heart's content.

The easiest way to create such a zip file is to install the JDK on a machine and then zip up the contents of the JDK directory. We do this in certain circumstances where we need to control exactly what configuration of Java will be used in our deployments. In that case, our scripts just point JAVA_HOME (or the equivalent) to our internally bundled JDK instead of relying on a sysadmin to install exactly what we need prior to arrival.

In terms of integrating with the browsers, that can be a bit more problematic. The short answer is no, you can't integrate directly with the browser without some sort of installer.

Answer 2

Really, no, at least if you want to use it from Windows and not from, say, cygwin. Windows depends too much on the registry; you could simulate the registry updates necessary, but software that moves the files to the right place and updates the registry is called "an installer"; you'd just be reinventing the installer.