Standard JDK Tools

Basic Tools

Tool Name	Brief Description
javac	This is the core of java, the compiler for the Java programming language.
java	It is used to launch the Java applications. The same launcher is employed for deployment and development pupose.
javadoc	It is used for producing API documentation.
apt	This tool is used for annotation processing.
appletviewer	The applet viewer is used to run applet , also used for debugging applets without the help of browser.
jar	This is used to produce and handle jar files.
javah	C header and stub generator. Used to write native methods. This is employed to produce stub and C header. Also used for writing native methods.
javap	This tool is used to dissembler Class file.
extcheck	This is used to find the conflicts between jars.

Security Tools
These security tools help you set security policies on your system and create apps that can work within the scope of security policies set at remote sites.

Tool Name	Brief Description
keytool	Manage keystores and certificates.
jarsigner	Generate and verify JAR signatures.
policytool	This GUI tool is used to handle policy files.

These security tools help you obtain, list, and manage Kerberos tickets.

Tool Name	Brief Description
kinit	For getting  Kerberos v5 tickets, we use this tool.
klist	This tool is a command line tool for listing entries in  credential cache and key tab.
ktab	This Tool is a command line tool for managing entries in the key table. This is done by user.

Internationalization Tool
 The native2ascii tool is used to convert text to Unicode Latin-1.

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) Tools
Given below tools are used to develop applications that can be used for communication over the network or web.

Tool Name	Brief Description
rmic	Generate stubs and skeletons for remote objects.
rmiregistry	Remote object registry service.
rmid	RMI activation system daemon.
serialver	Return class serialVersionUID.

Java IDL and RMI-IIOP Tools
These tools are used when creating applications that use OMG-standard IDL and CORBA/IIOP.

Tool Name	Brief Description
tnameserv	This tool is used to supply access to the naming service.
idlj	This tool produces .java files that map an OMG IDL interface and provide the ability to java application to use CORBA functionality.
orbd	In CORBA environment , it gives support for clients to transparently locate and invoke persistent objects on servers.
servertool	This tool is used to provide ability to application programmers to register, unregister, startup, and shutdown a server.

Java Deployment Tools
These tools are used with deployment of java applications and applets.

Tool Name	Brief Description
pack200	Using pack200 tool, you can compress the jar file into pack200 file using gzip compressor
unpack200	This tool coverts the pack200 file into jar files.

Java Plug-in Tools
These tool are used with Java Plug-in. The default tool come with this is htmlconverter , for Java Plug-in, it converts HTML containing applet to the OBJECT / EMBED tag format

Java Web Start Tools
These Tools are used with Java Web Start. The javaws  is a Java Web Start Tool which is a command line tool for establishing Java Web Start and setting various options