Document Installation

You should have approximately 165 MB of free disk space before installing the documentation.

Install the Java Platform Standard Edition documentation by following these steps:

1. Where to unbundle your documentation

You can install the documentation inside your JDK directory or in any other location you prefer.

Unbundling the JDK documentation creates a docs directory (folder) in the current directory, putting all the documentation inside that directory as shown here.

(documents) docs (APIs) ___________________________|__________________________ | | | | | | | | index.html legal technotes images api platform jre jdk _______|_______ | | |   tools samples guides

Unbundle the documentation using the a zip-compatible utility such as winzip, unzip, gunzip, or pkunzip. Your utility must support long file names.

• To unbundle the documentation bundle using the zip utility:
  

  C:> unzip jdk-6-doc.zip

  You can also unbundle the .zip file using the JDK's jar utility:
  

  C:> jar xvf jdk-6-doc.zip
  

  Note: If you are using another tool that doesn't preserve path names by default, be sure to specify that path names be preserved. For example, if you are using pkunzip, specify -d:

  C:> pkunzip -d jdk-6-doc.zip
  

Unzipping the documentation bundle creates a docs/ directory containing your Java Platform documentation.

Open the docs/index.html page in a browser. This is the front page and table of contents of the JDK documentation.