Since
2008
Since
2008
Since
2008
Java JDK comes bundled with lot of tools to enable Java developers to program better. You know and regularly use ‘java’ and ‘javac’. Do you know about ‘pack200’? There are many such tools comes default with our JKD bundle. This page is abridged to give a quick reference of tools available default with the Java JDK. This is based on Java JDK 1.8
| Java Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| appletviewer | To run applets outside of a web browser. |
| extcheck | To detect version conflict between a target jar file and installed extension jar files. |
| idlj | To generate Java bindings for a given IDL file. |
| jabswitch | To enable Java applications that implement Java Accessibility API to be visible to assistive technologies on MS Windows systems. |
| jar | To aggregate and compress multiple files into a singe JAR file. |
| jarsigner | To digitally sign a jar file and also to verify the signatures and integrity of signed jar files. |
| java | To launch Java applications. |
| javac | To compile Java source files to binary class files. |
| javadoc | To generate API documentation out of Java source files. |
| javafxpackager | To package JavaFx applications for deployment. |
| javah | To generate C language header and stubs while writing native methods. |
| javap | To disassemble Java class files. |
| java-rmi | To generate stubs, skeletons and other RMI related tasks. |
| javaw | To run a GUI based Java application in its own window in MS Windows. |
| javaws | To launch a Java application that is distributed through web. |
| jcmd | To send diagnostic command requests to a Java JVM. |
| jconsold | GUI tool to monitor a Java application running in a JVM. |
| jdb | To debug a Java class. |
| jdeps | To analyze Java class dependencies. |
| jhat | To parse and browse through Java heap dumps. |
| jinfo | To print configuration information for a given process or core file or remote debug server. |
| jjs | To invoke the Nashorn JavaScript engine. |
| jmap | To print shared object memory maps or heap memory details of a Java application process. |
| jmc | To monitor, analyze and debug Java applications. |
| jps | To list instrumented HotSpot Java VMs on a target system. |
| jrunscript | To run scipting language files like JavaScript. |
| jsadebugd | To attach to a Java process and acts as a debug server, so that remote clients can connect to it. |
| jstak | To print stack trace of threads for a given Java process. |
| jstat | To display performance statistics for an instrumented HotSpot JVM. |
| jstatd | To launch a RMI server to monitor creation and termination of instrumented HotSpot Java virtual machines. |
| jvisualvm | To monitor, analyze and debug running Java application via a GUI. |
| keytool | To create, manage, store keys and security certificates. |
| kinit | To obtain and cache Kerberos ticket-granting tickets. |
| klist | To list entries in credential cache and key tab. |
| ktab | To manage the entries in the security key table. |
| native2ascii | To convert files encoded in any character encoding supported by JRE to files encoded in ASCII. |
| orbd | To locate and invoke persistent objects on servers in CORBA environments. |
| pack200 | To transform a Java JAR file into a compressed pack200 file using the Java gzip compressor. |
| policytool | To create and modify the external policy configuration files that define the system Java security policy. |
| rmic | To generate stubs and skeletons for Java remote objects. |
| rmid | To start the activation system daemon that allows remote objects to be registered and activated in a JVM. |
| rmiregistry | To start a remote object registry. |
| schemagen | To generate schema for Java architecture XML bindings. |
| serialver | To return Java class serialVersionUID. |
| servertool | To enable programmers to register, unregister, startup and shutdown a persistent server. |
| tnameserv | To provide access to Java naming service. |
| unpack200 | To transform back a pack200 file to a Java JAR file. |
| wsgen | To read an existing web service implementation class and generate Java JAX-WS portable artifacts. |
| wsimport | To read a WSDL and generate Java JAX-WS portable artifacts. |
| xjc | Binding compiler for Java Architecture for XML Binding. |
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