Setup Java Developer Environment using Chocolatey

What is Chocolatey ?

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows similar to Homebrew on the MacOS, with features to install, configure, upgrade and uninstall Windows applications. Chocolatey works with all the existing Windows software installation technologies, runtime binaries and zip archives. It supports unattended and scripted package management with automatic configuration.

I will be using Chocolatey scripts to create a typical Java Developer Environment on a Windows machine.
These scripts can be used to setup, update or teardown the Java developer environments on a Windows machine.

Steps

1. Install Chocolatey
   open a command window using the Run As Administrator option and, execute setup-chocolatey.cmd.

2. Verify the installation is successful by typing choco in the command window.
   

3. Run setup-jde.cmd in the same command window to install the runtime (OpenJDK 11), build tools (maven, gradle), SCM (git) and utilities (putty, curl, postman, IntelliJ community edition) on the developer's Windows computer.

   contents of thesetup-jde.cmd

   choco feature enable -n allowGlobalConfirmation
   
   choco install -y openjdk maven gradle git atom putty curl postman  db-visualizer 7zip intellijidea-community
   

   Script execution start

   Script execution complete

4. Verify the installed applications of the Java Developer Environment.

Notes

1. Chocolatey Installation Details

2. C:\ProgramData\chocolatey contains the choco.exe.

3. Command syntax: choco <operation> <application-name>

   • operation is install or uninstall or upgrade
   • application-name is obtained from https://chocolatey.org/packages

4. https://chocolatey.org/packages contains the details of the applications that can be installed using choco install

5. uninstall-jde.cmd is used to teardown the Java Developer Environment.

6. Installation log: C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log