How To Set Up Java Application Development Environment On Windows 7?

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More than 6.5 million software as well as web professionals around the world is using Java Application Development platform to develop scalable and robust enterprise-level applications. It has been widely used by the software companies for developing different applications.

Apart from professionals, Java has created buzz in many newbie developers or students due to its flexible, compatible and productive nature. Today, there are many developers getting into the Java Application development to leverage from its rising popularity and demand in various industry domains. However, most of the newbie developers don’t know how to set up a Java development environment, specifically in windows 7.

So, this article is mainly addressed to the people or newbie developers getting into the Java application development, and looking for information or guidelines that can help them set up a Java development environment in their Windows 7 system.

Setting up an environment for Java development requires all the basic tools & settings to write, ...
... compile and run a Java code. You can simply follow steps discussed below to install different components & tools that will form an environment for developing Java applications:

* Set up Java JDK and JAVA_HOME, this is a necessary step!

If you’re a beginner using Java for the first time, it is natural that you won’t have any related tools installed on your system. You have to install Java Development Tookit, which nothing but a bundled with the Java Runtime Environment. Make sure you download the latest version of the JDK. By this time, the current version of the JDK is JDK 7u17. So, download it and start following the instructions to install it.

You can change the default installation path by choosing the other path that is easy to remember. Once the installation is completed, you have to set the environment variables, which is very crucial for many Java tools as well as for Java to work perfectly.

You can set up variables by simply going to the Advance System Settings-> Advanced-> Environment Variables. Add variable name JAVA_HOME and the path of JDK installation. That’s it! You have installed JDK environment and Java runtime.

* Sep up Apache Ant and ANT_HOME

Apache Ant is well-known development tool used in many Java projects. However, if you are not going to set up home servers or complex projects, then it is not so important for you to install it. The installation process is quite easy, you just have to unzip the file to the specific folder and have to add variable ANT_HOME, the process of setting up variable is similar to the one we have seen above.

* Set up Apache Maven & MAVEN_HOME

Like Apache Ant, Apache Maven is also a popular tool that is widely popular among the developers. It serves many roles like building tool, a library dependency tool, a software project management tool and comprehension tool. Installing Apache Maven is similar to that of Apache Ant. You have to simply download the latest version, unzip the file, set up the variables and path and that’s it!

* Set up SVN support with the help of Tortoise

It is a very famous versioning system that is widely used by the Java developers. You can install many subversion clients on your system. Find the latest version, download the file and simply follow the instructions.
* Set up Git using Git extensions

Git is another version control system that is rapidly becoming popular among the developers. There are many instances where SVN is replaced by Git, so chances are very high that you may have to deal with it. It encourages users to interact with it using the command line. You can directly install the native Git client and all the other UI tools with the help of Git extensions, this is the reason why many developers use Git extension.

* Install Java IDE of your choice!

Now, it is time to install your favorite IDE for developing Java applications. You can use Netbeans, Eclipse or Idea InelliJ.
Among the all steps, only 1 and 6 steps are necessary to set up a Java application development environment, the rest of the steps are optional and you can use them as per the project requirements.

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