Java(tm) Development Kit
Version 1.1
Tools Reference Pages - Windows
- Base Tools
- javac
- The Java Language Compiler that you use to compile programs written in the
Java(tm) Programming Language into bytecodes.
- java
- The Java Interpreter that you use to run programs written in the
Java(tm) Programming Language.
- jdb
- The Java Language Debugger that helps you find and fix bugs in Java(tm)
programs.
- javah
- Creates C header files and C stub files for a Java(tm) class.
These files provide the connective glue that allow your code written
in the Java Programming Language to interact with code written in
other languages like C.
- javap
- Disassembles compiled Java(tm) files and prints out a representation of
the Java bytecodes.
- javadoc
- Generates API documentation in HTML format from Java(tm) source code.
- appletviewer
- Allows you to run applets without a web browser.
- RMI Tools
- rmic
- Generates stub and skeleton
class files for Java objects implementing the
java.rmi.Remote
interface.
- rmiregistry
- Starts a remote object
registry on a specified port. The remote object registry is a
bootstrap naming service which is used by RMI servers.
- serialver
- Returns the serialVersionUID for one or more classes.
- Internationalization Tools
- native2ascii
- Converts non-Unicode Latin-1
(source code or property) files to Unicode Latin-1.
- JAR Tool
- jar
- Combines multiple files into a single
Java Archive (JAR) file.
- Digital Signing Tool
- javakey
- Generates digital signatures for archive files and manages
the database of entities and their keys and signatures.
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