2 Main Tools to Create and Build Applications

You can use the foundation JDK tools and commands to create and build applications.

The following sections describe the tools and commands that you can use to create and build applications:

• javac: You can use the javac tool and its options to read Java class and interface definitions and compile them into bytecode and class files.

• javap: You use the javap command to disassemble one or more class files.

• javadoc: You use the javadoc tool and its options to generate HTML pages of API documentation from Java source files.

• java: You can use the java command to launch a Java application.

• jar: You can use the jar command to create an archive for classes and resources, and to manipulate or restore individual classes or resources from an archive.

• jlink: You can use the jlink tool to assemble and optimize a set of modules and their dependencies into a custom runtime image.

• jmod: You use the jmod tool to create JMOD files and list the content of existing JMOD files.

• jdeps: You use the jdeps command to launch the Java class dependency analyzer.

• jdeprscan: You use the jdeprscan tool as a static analysis tool that scans a jar file (or some other aggregation of class files) for uses of deprecated API elements.