Java® Development Kit Version 12 Tool Specifications

All Platforms

• jar - create an archive for classes and resources, and manipulate or restore individual classes or resources from an archive
• jarsigner - sign and verify Java Archive (JAR) files
• java - launch a Java application
• javac - read Java class and interface definitions and compile them into bytecode and class files
• javadoc - generate HTML pages of API documentation from Java source files
• javap - disassemble one or more class files
• jcmd - send diagnostic command requests to a running Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• jconsole - start a graphical console to monitor and manage Java applications
• jdb - find and fix bugs in Java platform programs
• jdeprscan - static analysis tool that scans a jar file (or some other aggregation of class files) for uses of deprecated API elements
• jdeps - launch the Java class dependency analyzer
• jhsdb - attach to a Java process or launch a postmortem debugger to analyze the content of a core dump from a crashed Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• jinfo - generate Java configuration information for a specified Java process
• jjs - command-line tool to invoke the Nashorn engine
• jlink - assemble and optimize a set of modules and their dependencies into a custom runtime image
• jmap - print details of a specified process
• jmod - create JMOD files and list the content of existing JMOD files
• jpackage - package a self-contained Java application
• jps - list the instrumented JVMs on the target system
• jrunscript - run a command-line script shell that supports interactive and batch modes
• jshell - interactively evaluate declarations, statements, and expressions of the Java programming language in a read-eval-print loop (REPL)
• jstack - print Java stack traces of Java threads for a specified Java process
• jstat - monitor JVM statistics
• jstatd - monitor the creation and termination of instrumented Java HotSpot VMs
• keytool - manage a keystore (database) of cryptographic keys, X.509 certificate chains, and trusted certificates
• pack200 - transform a Java Archive (JAR) file into a compressed pack200 file with the Java gzip compressor
• rmic - generate stub and skeleton class files using the Java Remote Method Protocol (JRMP)
• rmid - start the activation system daemon that enables objects to be registered and activated in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• rmiregistry - create and start a remote object registry on the specified port on the current host
• serialver - return the `serialVersionUID` for one or more classes in a form suitable for copying into an evolving class
• unpack200 - transform a packed file into a JAR file for web deployment

Windows Only

• jaccessinspector - examine accessible information about the objects in the Java Virtual Machine using the Java Accessibility Utilities API
• jaccesswalker - navigate through the component trees in a particular Java Virtual Machine and present the hierarchy in a tree view
• javaw - launch a Java application without a console window
• kinit - obtain and cache Kerberos ticket-granting tickets
• klist - display the entries in the local credentials cache and key table
• ktab - manage the principal names and service keys stored in a local key table