* java – the loader for Java applications. This tool is an interpreter and can interpret the class files generated by the javac compiler. Now a single launcher is used for both development and deployment. The old deployment launcher, jre, no longer[update] comes with Sun JDK, and instead it has been replaced by this new java loader.
* javac – the compiler, which converts source code into Java bytecode
* appletviewer – this tool can be used to run and debug Java applets without a web browser
* apt – the annotation-processing tool * extcheck – a utility which can detect JAR-file conflicts
* idlj – the IDL-to-Java compiler. This utility generates Java bindings from a given Java IDL file.
* javadoc – the documentation generator, which automatically generates documentation from source code comments
* jar – the archiver, which packages related class libraries into a single JAR file. This tool also helps manage JAR files.
* javah – the C header and stub generator, used to write native methods
* javap – the class file disassembler
* javaws – the Java Web Start launcher for JNLP applications
* jconsole – Java Monitoring and Management Console
* jdb – the debugger
* jhat – Java Heap Analysis Tool
* jinfo – This utility gets configuration information from a running Java process or crash dump.
* jmap – This utility outputs the memory map for Java and can print shared object memory maps or heap memory details of a given process or core dump.
* jps – Java Virtual Machine Process Status Tool lists the instrumented HotSpot Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) on the target system.
* jrunscript – Java command-line script shell.
* jstack – utility which prints Java stack traces of Java threads
* jstat – Java Virtual Machine statistics monitoring tool
* jstatd – jstat daemon
* policytool – the policy creation and management tool, which can determine policy for a Java runtime, specifying which permissions are available for code from various sources
* VisualVM – visual tool integrating several command-line JDK tools and lightweight[clarification needed] performance and memory profiling capabilities
* wsimport – generates portable JAX-WS artifacts for invoking a web service.
* xjc – Part of the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB) API. It accepts an XML schema and generates Java classes.