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macOS - How to install Java 17

Could someone please let me know the steps to install Java on a Mac.
I did brew install java
I get this
Warning: openjdk 17.0.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 17.0.1, run:
brew reinstall openjdk
If I do java -version, I get this.
openjdk version "13.0.8" 2021-07-20
If I have navigate to /Library/Java, I have 2 empty directories.
Where is java 17 installed??

In 2023, even if you can use just brew..
brew install openjdk#17
Java will be installed here:
/usr/local/opt/openjdk#17/bin/java
For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with:
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
...give a try to sdkman, it's far better than brew
curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
then open a new shell and try list to see what you could install ;-)
sdk list java
At time of writing you could use:
sdk install java 17.0.4.1-tem
Java will be installed here:
/Users/freedev/.sdkman/candidates/java/17.0.4.1-tem

Java doesn't mind if you install multiple versions. This is often required; java is not backwards compatible (it tries to change little, but e.g. the java8 to java9 transition broke a ton of stuff, much of it needless and much of it not reasonably expectable or fixable by libraries and apps, so a bunch of java apps and libraries only run on java8 - just an example).
So, yes, you have installed JDK17. Also, yes, if you just run java without specifying which one you want, you so happen to get java13 here.
To see all installed javas, you can run:
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
to 'override', you can use something like (depends on which shell you're using on your mac):
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 17`
(the backticks mean: Run this then take the output of it and treat that as the 'value' of the expression. here, assign it to the JAVA_HOME env var. -v 17 requests a path to java 17. The -V option lists all and is meant for your eyeballs, not for scripts. The -v option is mostly for scripting, and that's how we're using it here).
JAVA_HOME decides which java is used by some things, but the java you get when you just type java is /usr/bin/java, and that executable is actually just a wrapper that picks a java to run from amongst all installed versions. It uses JAVA_HOME to decide which java to actually run. There are wrappers for all the common commands (javac, too). You can always run e.g. which javac to see what that actually runs; you probably see /usr/bin/javac. Everything in /usr/bin is one of these wrapper thingies that looks at JAVA_HOME and then runs the binary it finds there.

To specify version 17
brew install openjdk#17
Later I add create a link:
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk#17/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-17.jdk
And use jenv to control which java version to use

To used the version installed by homebrew rather than the one installed by the OS you can get detailed information from homebrew by typing
brew info java
Currently it states
For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
openjdk is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
because macOS provides similar software and installing this software in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
If you need to have openjdk first in your PATH, run:
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
For compilers to find openjdk you may need to set:
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/include"

For Homebrew, the package that installs the new AdoptOpenJDK is named as temurin. So you need to use below command:
brew install --cask temurin17
If you get any error like temurin cask not available then update brew using below commands:
brew update
brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
To switch quickly between different versions of java add the entries in bashrc as per your jdk versions like:
alias j8="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`; java -version"
alias j17="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 17`; java -version"

Steps to install
You asked:
let me know the steps to install Java on a Mac.
Download an installer free-of-cost from vendors such as Adoptium, Azul Systems, Bellsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and others.
Run installer app.
Quit the installer app when done.
Verify installation by typing on a command-line in Terminal.app:java --version
Delete installer app that you downloaded.
Configure your IDE to use that new Java implementation you installed.
Java location
You asked:
Where is java 17 installed??
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/
In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder, and paste /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/.
Note that this is not the Library folder within your home folder. We are not referring to /Users/your_user_name/Library/…. We are referring to the root Library folder that applies across all the user accounts on this Mac.
You said:
I did brew install java
No need for the Homebrew package manager. If you already enjoy using the brew tool, proceed. But if new to Homebrew, skip it if your only goal is to install Java. Just use an installer for Java as you would for many Mac apps.
JavaFX
You added a tag for javafx.
Be aware that for JavaFX, you have two options:
Include the necessary OpenJFX libraries within your development project and within your final app, or …
Use a JDK that includes the JavaFX/OpenJFX libraries.
At least two vendors provide JDK installers that include the JavaFX/OpenJFX libraries:
Azul Systems (ZuluFX)
Bellsoft (LibericaFX)

This answer is specifically if you use Intellij on a Mac
Within IntelliJ, you can use the IDE to add new JDKs of selected versions from common vendors. Instructions for this are here:
Setup the project JDK
When setting up the JDK, you can either:
Select a pre-existing JDK which has been registered with the IDE OR
Use the Add JDK option to add a new JDK which you previously downloaded and installed using the method outlined in Basil's answer OR
Use the Download JDK option to choose a vendor and version of the JDK that the IDE will automatically download, install and make available for selection.
The JDKs installed by Idea will be located in the same location as outlined in Basil's answer for a manual install /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/.
One common issue is that the version of the JDK registered for the project differs from the default version used in the terminal. This can sometimes mean that the app works when run in Idea, then fails when run in the terminal (or, at least that it is executed against a version of the JDK you didn't expect).
To select the version of the JDK to run in the terminal, configure the Java home setting as outlined in rzwitserloot's answer.
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 17`
Also, some tools such as the openjfx maven plugin will not use the java version selected in Idea when executing a call to a JDK tool like jlink, but will instead have their own mechanism for finding a JDK to use (e.g. look at JAVA_HOME or use the Maven toolchains plugin). So it is always good to check the JAVA_HOME variable and ensure that it is set to a reasonable value, both for terminal execution and for effective use of Java development tools that may rely on it.

I think that answers here are not fully out of topic, but from my point of view, my case is exactly the same as that of the author. I had already installed java 8, 11, and 13. All of them resides at:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/
Nevertheless when I tried to find the path of JDK 17 it resides:
/usr/local/Cellar/openjdk
I use Mac OS Big Sur and the JDK was installed with homebrew

Brew now supports searching old formulae and allowing you to install a specific version. I'm using Homebrew 3.5.2-117-gb941470
Create a local tap: brew tap-new --no-git local/openjdk
Ask Brew to find the formulae of the version you want: brew extract --version 17.0.2 openjdk local/openjdk
Install Java 17 using your new local tap: brew install openjdk#17.0.2
Link the JDK into the MacOS JVM Dir: sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk#17.0.2/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk17.0.2.jdk
Check Java 17 is available: /usr/libexec/java_home -V
Set Java Home: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v17)
Check current version of Java is correct...
$ java --version
openjdk 17.0.2 2022-01-18

The following method installs Java without the need for any additional tools or package managers.
Go to https://jdk.java.net/17/ and download the latest macOS archive.
Download the latest Adoptium release for the Java 17 branch by going to https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/ and be sure to select the tar.gz version.
The archive is either for x64 (Intel CPU) or for AArch64 (Apple Silicon / M1 CPU).
Then, open a Terminal, and extract the downloaded archive to the system path for Java virtual machines:
cd Downloads
tar xzf OpenJDK17U-jdk_aarch64_mac_hotspot_17.0.5_8.tar.gz -C /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

How to brew install java?

I'd like to setup java on a new OS X machine, and prefer to use brew for OS X package management. How can I install latest java using brew?

Turns out java has been moved into brew core recently, so the correct command as of August 2022 is:
brew install java
Then check your installation by running
java --version
If the result does not looks like this:
openjdk 18.0.2 2022-07-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 18.0.2+0, mixed mode, sharing)
but like this:
The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime.
Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java.
Then you also need to create a symlink for the system Java wrappers to find this JDK:
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk

As an add-on to the accepted answer: to install a certain version of Java, e.g. version 11, run:
brew install openjdk#11
And symlink it:
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-11.jdk

I had to sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk

If you want to install the Oracle version of java's SDK with homebrew, use the following command:
brew install --cask oracle-jdk
If you don't care, then use the accepted answer by #Tim Fulmer to get the OpenJDK version
brew install java

run
brew reinstall openjdk
and it will display the following which shows your file path:
For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
openjdk is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because macOS provides similar software and installing this software in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
If you need to have openjdk first in your PATH, run:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openjdk/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/gerarddonnelly/.bash_profile
For compilers to find openjdk you may need to set:
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openjdk/include"
I then ran the code below, which I took from the output above:
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
The other issue I had was that Elasticsearch was not recognising my JAVA version. To fix that I added the following line to my .bash_profile
EXPORT JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
then I ran
source ~/.bash_profile
to refresh my profile.
After that it worked.
Hope this helps.

Assembled from the answers here and How to set or change the default Java (JDK) version on macOS?:
You can use brew to install multiple java versions and run a command to switch between the versions as required.
Example
Install two java versions (change java versions as pleased):
brew install openjdk#19
brew install openjdk#8
Use the following command to see the installed versions:
/usr/libexec/java_home -V
you should see the two versions specified in the response (if not, read further to create a symlink). Now you can select the java version using:
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 8`
verify selected version:
java -version
you can further export the JAVA_HOME variable in your shell init file as speciifed in the attached SOF thread.
Now, in case you do not see the java version in /usr/libexec/java_home as expected and the version selection of that missing version is not working, you might need to add a symlink:
Executing brew info openjdk#the-missing-java-versionshould return the location of the installed version and will specify a symlink command that you should run for the system to find the SDK. The response text look something similar to:
...For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#17/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-17.jdk...

Even though JRE 8 is installed on my MAC -" No Java Runtime present,requesting to install " gets displayed in terminal

Even though JRE 8 is installed on my MAC OS Yosemite 10.10.3,while running the Android present in tools in sdk - the error - " No Java Runtime present,requesting to install " gets displayed in terminal- how do i solve this issue?
I wanted to install Xamarin test recorder - after installing they
asked me to install Android sdk
SDK is downloaded in Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk
Now when I run Android present in tools folder - I get the error -
No Java run time
I've installed JRE 8 with get the verified
java version from their site
Can someone please help!!

You have to install the full JDK, not only the JRE.
I had the same issue and solved by installing JDK.
Please use this link to download the latest JDK version 19.

After installing openjdk with brew and runnning brew info openjdk I got this
And from that I got this command here, and after running it I got Java working
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk

2021 solution
TL;DR
brew install temurin
Details
On an M1 Mac/Apple Silicon (running Big Sur), I had already openjdk installed. As signaled in a previous answer by Mohammed, openjdk is keg-only with brew, and hence requires adding a symlink.
After following this, it solved the No Java Runtime present error, but rJava was complaining about missing libjvm.dylib and that existing libraries were for the wrong architecture:
.onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
call: dyn.load(jvm, FALSE)
error: unable to load shared object '/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk/16.0.2/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/server/libjvm.dylib':
dlopen(/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk/16.0.2/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/server/libjvm.dylib, 10):
no suitable image found. Did find:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk/16.0.2/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/server/libjvm.dylib:
mach-o, but wrong architecture
Installing Eclipse Temurin (previously AdoptOpenJDK) (and removing the previously created symlink in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk) immediately solved both issues seamlessly.
Just run brew install temurin and everything should be OK.

I didn't need the full JDK, I just needed to make JRE work and none of the other answers provided above worked for me.
Maybe it used to work, but now (1st Jul 2018) it isn't working. I just kept getting the error and the pop-up.
I eventually solved this issue by placing the following JAVA_HOME export in ~/.bash_profile:
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home
Hope this helps someone.
I'm running Mac OS High Sierra.

I just had to do the following on Mac:
brew install openjdk
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk
export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home"
java --version

If you came across the error when tried to generate a jks file (keystore), so try adding
/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/Contents/Home/bin/keytool
before running the command, like so:
/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jre/Contents/Home/bin/keytool -genkey -v -keystore ~/key.jks -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias key

Since it sounds like your JAVA_HOME variable is not set correctly, follow the instructions for setting that.
Setting JAVA_HOME environment variable on MAC OSX 10.9
I would imagine once you set this, it will stop complaining.

Maybe someone is still having the same issue. You can install openjdk using homebrew, and then add the new JDK bin directory to the front of your path:
cd ~
brew install openjdk
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openjdk/bin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
source .bash_profile

Pre-Requisite:
I already had java11 installed on my machine using brew.
Step-1: brew info java11
output:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk#11
USER1-MacBook-Pro JavaVirtualMachines % brew info java11
openjdk#11: stable 11.0.12 (bottled) [keg-only]
Development kit for the Java programming language
https://openjdk.java.net/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk#11/11.0.12 (670 files, 273.0MB)
Poured from bottle on 2021-10-09 at 13:07:04
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/openjdk#11.rb
License: GPL-2.0-only
==> Dependencies
Build: autoconf ✔
==> Requirements
Build: Xcode ✘
==> Caveats
For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with
sudo ln -sfn /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-11.jdk
openjdk#11 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /opt/homebrew,
because this is an alternate version of another formula.
If you need to have openjdk#11 first in your PATH, run:
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
For compilers to find openjdk#11 you may need to set:
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/include"
==> Analytics
install: 44,188 (30 days), 149,578 (90 days), 433,845 (365 days)
install-on-request: 19,074 (30 days), 63,262 (90 days), 187,286 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)
Step-2: Append openJDK path to existing path.
echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
Step-3: Source existing shell or open new terminal to validate changes
source ~/.zshrc
Step-4: Check path is added
which java
output: /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk#11/bin/java
Step-5:
java --version
openjdk 11.0.12 2021-07-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 11.0.12+0)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 11.0.12+0, mixed mode)

working by following command
export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/Contents/Home"

TL;DR
For JDK 11 try this:
To handle this problem in a clean way, I suggest to use brew and jenv.
For Java 11 follow this 2 steps, first :
JAVA_VERSION=11
brew reinstall jenv
brew reinstall openjdk#${JAVA_VERSION}
jenv add /usr/local/opt/openjdk#${JAVA_VERSION}/
jenv global ${JAVA_VERSION}
And add this at end of your shell config scripts ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc
export PATH="$HOME/.jenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(jenv init -)"
export JAVA_HOME="$HOME/.jenv/versions/`jenv version-name`"
Problem solved!
Then restart your shell and try to execute java -version
Note: If you have this problem, your current JDK version is not existent or misconfigured (or may be you have only JRE).

In 2022:
No need to download Java anymore, once Android Studio is installed.
Even though Java 11 is embedded with Android Studio now, on Mac sometimes this problem arises and the Java runtime is not found.
So, I have solved this problem by doing these two steps:
In Android Studio go to File > Project Structure. If, under the SDK entry, you can see there is no default SDK selected, but a text in red "No SDK", click on it and you will find an SDK / JDK list, select one of them. Thats it.
Make sure you run Android Studio from Application Folder.
For this copy the Android Studio launcher to the Application folder. Then in the Finder, go to the Application folder. Right-click on it. Click on "Show package contents", then navigate up to jre folder. Copy the folder and paste it into your home folder.
Now setup the path from the terminal: you can create a folder named java_jre, and the path must be set to jre/contents/Home :
Noors-Mac-mini:bin noorhossain$ export JAVA_HOME="/Users/noorhossain/java_jre/jre/Contents/Home"
// now checking the version :
Noors-Mac-mini:bin noorhossain$ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+0-b60-7772763)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+0-b60-7772763, mixed mode)

I solved the problem by installing oracle-sdk with brew.
brew install oracle-jdk --cask

In 2022, only if Android studio is installed:
Check if JDK is installed in Android studio. In Android Studio go to File > Project Structure. Under the SDK entry, if there is no default JDK selected, select from the list, or if there isn't any, add JDK and then apply to install.
After the JDK is installed in Android studio, you just need to add the JDK path directly from your Android Studio. Run the below command in the terminal and that's it.
echo 'export JAVA_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/Contents/Home"' >> ~/.zshrc
Now, check if it's working.
❯ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+0-b60-7772763)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+0-b60-7772763, mixed mode)
No need to install any package from brew or create any symlink. The Java is already embedded with the Android studio and we can use this directly for our system.

In newer versions of OS X (especially Yosemite, EL Capitan), Apple has removed Java support for security reasons.
To fix this you have to do the following.
Download Java for OS X 2015-001 from this link: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1572?locale=en_US
Mount the disk image file and install Java 6 runtime for OS X.
After this you should not be seeing any of the below messages:
- Unable to find any JVMs matching version "(null)"
- No Java runtime present, try --request to install.
This should resolve the issue for the pop-up shown below:

Below is worked for me on macos mojave 10.14.6 version
I installed current jdk(https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html)
Then do respectively;
vim .bash_profile
add "export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)" to bash_profile
source .bash_profile
it is done. And you can check the version with java -version command.

If you are having this issue for the same reason that I am, I can tell you why it is happening. I just don't know how to fix it yet.
Here it is:
I am using JDK version 1.8 on MacOS Big Sur. I do not want to have to install a later version of the JDK because all my projects run on 1.8. But here's the thing.... On the command line
java -version
Returns this:
openjdk version "1.8.0_302"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_302-bre_2021_08_14_21_34-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.302-b00, mixed mode)
but a slightly different command (version prefixed with 2 dashes instead of 1)
java --version
returns this error:
Unrecognized option: --version
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
This is because Java 8 uses single dash version, all JDKs after use double dash.
So the machine, when looking for JAVA_HOME, is also using double dashes and getting the error.

just run this
sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk

I have Mojave 10.14.6 and the only thing that did work for me was:
setting JAVA_HOME to the following:
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home
source .bash_profile (or wherever you keep your vars, in my case .zshrc)
Hope it helps! You can now type java --version and it should work

It's worth noting that with my current version of SQLDeveloper (21.2.1), there's another way to specify the JDK location. In my case, I was able to open up ~/.sqldeveloper/21.2.1/product.conf and set the JavaHome directive to the appropriate directory. I use jabba for JDK version management, and this path was something like ~/.jabba/jdk/amazon-corretto#1.8.292-10.1/Contents/Home. Needless to say, just setting that config value and restarting SQLDeveloper left me with a running copy again. This should work with any version of SQLDeveloper given the product.conf file exists inside your user's .sqldeveloper directory appropriate for the version you are using.

install JDK it will work ,
here is the jdk link to download .
link: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk13-downloads-
5672538.html

Getting Java to work with Windows 10 Ubuntu

I installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update so that I could try Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. See how to install it. I wanted to see how performant it was. I then installed the Oracle Java JDK as per this article, so I could compare compilation times with the native Windows Java compiler.
I then tried to run Maven on my project, but it didn't work. Maven just hung starting. I noticed in Task Manager that the "java" process was hovering around 92% CPU.
So I tried something simple. I created a dummy Java Hello-world-like class and attempted to compile it with javac. Similarly, the "javac" process sat around 92% CPU.
I thought maybe it had something to do with running headless, but the -Djava.awt.headless=trueoption didn't make it any better.
Has anyone got this to work or have anything to try?
Update:
I also tried installing the Open JDK instead of the Oracle JDK (via sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk) with the same result.

I figured it out. I couldn't use the download directly from Oracle. Instead I had to install it as per this link. Here are the steps:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

I had the same experience with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. The first Fast Track Insider Build after the Anniversary Update and later support both the oracle Java 8 installer and the open JDK 7 installer. I just verified the java -version command still works on Insider Preview Build 14951 161014-1700 from the Ubuntu subsystem's bash shell. I have run other JVM based tools from bash shell as well but not extensively.
Here is a link to an issue, Cannot install Oracle JDK 8 #315, describing both installation and JVM hang issues tracked by the BashOnWindows project.

Getting started Java with Linux OS

I know this is very basic question, but these days I have done all my Java programs on Windows OS. But now I like to go with Linux.
How JDK and all be installed in Linux OS?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

That is dependent on the distribution you are using -- provide more details so people can be more helpful.
In most distributions however this is as simple as installing a package from the official repositories.
For example, in Debian/Ubuntu etc. you can do:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
which will get you both the JDK and the JRE which is a dependency.

On Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-demo openjdk-6-doc
gets you the SDK, its demos and documentation. You should then be able to run the first set of examples.

It depends on your distribution. In Ubuntu you would do something like this (as root)...
# aptitude search jdk
After your choice, you install it.
# aptitude install sun-java6-jdk
Don't bother about downloading anything from any website. The package manager (apt-get, aptitude) is doing that for you.

Many Linux distributions package the OpenJDK into their repositories so you can install Java like any other application. If you want the Sun version of Java then you can download a bin or rpm file directly from Sun/Oracle that you can install manually.
The Sun/Oracle version can be found here: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/widget/jdk6.jsp Just select Linux as your platform in the form.

In addition to others' answers: If you need Java packages beyond what your distro provides, then check out the JPackage project. JPackage provides RPMs (so it won't work on Debian or Ubuntu, unless you use Alien) of a large number of Java libraries, frameworks, and tools.

As people have noted, you can use apt-get to install the JDK:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Also, if you're looking for a graphical editor, Eclipse is a good one, especially when you're not very familiar with Unix operating systems. It also should come with the JDK included with the default install. You can download that with:
sudo apt-get install eclipse
As Tedil mentioned, you can also get this without the console work via Ubuntu's Software Center in the Applications menu from the top bar.