Sun has made it complicated to download JRE.
If you go to their webpage, you will see all kinds of jargon - JDK, Java SE, Java ME, Java EE, so on until you are lost.
Fortunately, we know that JRE is just another application. You should be able to get just a installer which will do the job for you.
And indeed that is how simple it really is.
So you will find a jre installer here:
- Go to their Download section
- Go to Java SE
(FYI - SE stands for Standard Edition, as opposed to EE which stands for Enterprise Edition, which contains support for EJBs, and ME stands for Mobile Edition for developing Java apps for mobile devices -- not that anybody does this anymore)
- You will see a JDK and a JRE download
- Just download the JRE installer (don't worry about JDK - we don't need it right now - but we will learn about it later)
- Run the installer
- It will create a folder called jre6 (or jre7 or whatever version you downloaded), which will have the /bin and /lib folders that we talked about in the previous post
Thats it - you have JRE installed and it is just another application - one that can run your Java applications!
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