5 Create and Build Applications

Use the following commands to create and build applications:

This section contains the following commands:

appletviewer: Runs applets outside of a web browser.

extcheck: Detects version conflicts between a target Java Archive (JAR) file and currently installed extension JAR files.

jar: Combines multiple files into a single JAR file.

java: Starts a Java application.

javac: Reads Java class and interface definitions and compiles them into bytecode and class files.

javadoc: Generates HTML pages of API documentation from Java source files.

javah: Generates C header and source files from a Java class.

javap: Disassembles one or more class files.

jdb: Finds and fixes bugs in Java platform programs.

jdeps: Java class dependency analyzer