Please read the academic license agreement. Also see Sun's Global Free Java Software for Teaching page.
Before you run these programs for the first time, set
HOME
to somewhere useful. This will give them somewhere
to create some folders, that will otherwise be irritatingly placed
into your top-level directory. See the release notes for the Java
Workshop extension.
You will need to give these programs a license key the first time you run them. Here are our academic license keys:
It's probably better not to register. Note that the "extension" is mostly a bug fix patch. Install Java Workshop 2.0 first and then install the patch. The patch is needed to run Java Workshop with Swing.
For more info, see the on Java info page.
Java workshop
Java workshop extension
Swing
Java studio