[July 2023 - Solved] javac is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

If you are trying to run the java application but unfortunately it throws an error saying : "javac is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

• This is the pure indication that it is not identifying the java jdk in your system.

Steps to follow:

1) Firstly, you need to make sure you are having java jdk for your operating system.

• Java JDK can be downloaded from official website: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk17-archive-downloads.html

• As mine is windows 11 64-bit, I chose

  

2) Once the JDK is downloaded, continue to complete the setup till end.

3) Now, we have Java in our system, we need to tell the path to our system

• In most of the windows systems, the path would be in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-17\bin

• We need to add this path in Windows search > Environment variables ,choose Edit inside Path in System Variables

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  Click New and paste the path as shown below:

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4) [Last Step] Adding the same path in User Variables

Relaunch cmd and try to check the java version: java --version

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Congratulations, Happy Coding!!

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