Installing Java

In this section, we will be installing a file transfer application, installing Java, and preparing the NetBeans editor.

We will be using the Oracle JDK to run our Java applications. At the time of writing, the latest version is JDK 1.8, which all our projects will be using as a minimal version:

  1. To get the Oracle JDK, go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and select the Download JDK button.
  2. On the following page you need to select the ARM version to be downloaded. Although the version you will be seeing now may differ from the version mentioned in the book, the naming scheme for the download is the same in all these versions. Even though the Raspberry Pi is now based on a 64-bit architecture ...

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