Get Oracle Java 1.8 in windows without installing it

Question

Is it possible to get Java in zip format? I don\'t want to install it by getting .exe file.

Is there any zip version of Java 1.8 so that I can download it and extract i

Answer 1

You can extract the JDK folder from the Installation EXE.

Check this link for the steps. The post was for JDK 1.7 it will work for JDK 1.8 also

Do the following.

Steps

1. Download JDK from Oracle
2. Download and Install 7-zip from here
3. Open installition exe using 7-Zip
4. Extract the tools.zip
5. Extract the content of tools.zip to a folder (e.g. c:\jdk).
6. Open the extracted folder in cmd prompt.
7. Execute for /r %x in (*.pack) do .\bin\unpack200 -r "%x" "%~dx%~px%~nx.jar" command
8. Set JAVA_HOME to the jdk (e.g c:\jdk) folder.
9. Add %JAVA_HOME%/bin to the PATH env variable.

Testing

Run the following command to check the installation, it will print the version of JDK.

c:> javac -version
javac 1.7.0_51

NOTE: Tested with JDK 1.7 and 1.8

Update 1

Edited the answer to add the steps in the answer itself instead of the link to a blog post.

Update 2

For 64-Bit please check unpack-jdk-x64.bat by grabantot