How to install OpenJDK 11 on Windows

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In the past  Oracle used to publish an executable installers for Windows that would    Unpack files Add registry keys indicating the installed version and path Add the JRE to the system PATH Register an uninstaller with Windows    As of Java 11  the Oracle s free version of Java  Oracle OpenJDK  doesn t seem to include an installer  It is just a zip file containing the binaries   How are we supposed to install OpenJDK 11 on Windows seeing as the aforementioned integrations are no longer there  Aren t they necessary

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Extract the zip file into a folder  e g  C  Program Files Java  and it will create a jdk-11 folder  where the bin folder is a direct sub-folder   You may need Administrator privileges to extract the zip file to this location  Set a PATH    Select Control Panel and then System  Click Advanced and then Environment Variables  Add the location of the bin folder of the JDK installation to the PATH variable in System Variables  The following is a typical value for the PATH variable  C  WINDOWS system32 C  WINDOWS  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 bin   Set JAVA HOME    Under System Variables  click New  Enter the variable name as JAVA HOME  Enter the variable value as the installation path of the JDK  without the bin sub-folder   Click OK  Click Apply Changes   Configure the JDK in your IDE  e g  IntelliJ or Eclipse     You are set    To see if it worked  open up the Command Prompt and type java -version and see if it prints your newly installed JDK   If you want to uninstall - just undo the above steps   Note  You can also point JAVA HOME to the folder of your JDK installations and then set the PATH variable to  JAVA HOME  bin  So when you want to change the JDK you change only the JAVA HOME variable and leave PATH as it is

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AdoptOpenJDK is a new website hosted by the java community  You can find  msi installers for OpenJDK 8 through 14 there  which will perform all the things listed in the question  Unpacking  registry keys  PATH variable updating  and JAVA HOME   uninstaller

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You can use Amazon Corretto  It is free to use multiplatform  production-ready distribution of the OpenJDK  It comes with long-term support that will include performance enhancements and security fixes  Check the installation instructions here   You can also check Zulu from Azul   One more thing I like to highlight here is both Amazon Corretto and Zulu are TCK Compliant  You can see the OpenJDK builds comparison here and here

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From the comment by  ZhekaKozlov  ojdkbuild has OpenJDK builds  currently 8 and 11  for Windows  zip and msi

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Use the Chocolatey packet manager  It s a command-line tool similar to npm  Once you have installed it  use  choco install openjdk   in an elevated command prompt to install OpenJDK   To update an installed version to the latest version  type  choco upgrade openjdk   Pretty simple to use and especially helpful to upgrade to the latest version  No manual fiddling with path environment variables

[windows] How to install OpenJDK 11 on Windows?

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