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Chapter 6. Red Hat build of OpenJDK MSI installer components

The Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 for Microsoft Windows MSI-based installer includes the following components:

jdk
Runtime environment files (excluding development tools).
jdk_devel
Java Development Kit files.
jdk_registry_standard

Registry keys: 

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment, entries:
  CurrentVersion: 1.8

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8, entries:
  JavaHome: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\
  RuntimeLib: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8_<update>, entries:
  JavaHome: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\
  RuntimeLib: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
jdk_registry_standard_devel

Registry keys: 

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit, entries:
  CurrentVersion: 1.8

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.8, entries:
  JavaHome: <INSTALLDIR>
  RuntimeLib: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Development Kit\1.8_<update>, entries:
  JavaHome: <INSTALLDIR>
  RuntimeLib: <INSTALLDIR>\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
jdk_env_path
Appends <INSTALLDIR>\bin and <INSTALLDIR>\jre\bin to the system %PATH% environment variable.
jdk_env_java_home
Sets <INSTALLDIR> to the system %JAVA_HOME% environment variable.
jdk_env_vendor_java_home
Sets <INSTALLDIR> to the system %REDHAT_JAVA_HOME% environment variable.
jdk_registry_jar
Association for JAR files. Launch JAR files using the Red Hat build of OpenJDK context menu.
jmc
JDK Mission Control Files.
jmc_env
Appends `<jdk>/missioncontrol to the 'PATH' system environment variable.
webstart
WebStart files, installed into <INSTALLDIR>\webstart.
webstart_registry
Association for JNLP files and jnlp:// URLs.
webstart_env
Appends <INSTALLDIR>\webstart to the system %PATH% environment variable.
webstart_migrate
Migrate WebStart local settings and cache on update.
webstart_plugin
Installs plugin.jar into <jdk>/jre/lib/ for compatibility with third-party applications. Web browser plugin implementation is not included.
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