title: How can I get the latest JRE / JDK as a zip file rather than EXE or MSI installer?
body: <p>I like to be sure that everything will work just by copying the contents of the Java folder and setting the environment variables.</p>
  <p>I usually run the installer in a virtual machine, zip the \java folder contents, go back to a snapshot of the virtual machine, and then unzip the compressed file.</p>
  <p>I couldn't find a place where the latest JRE / JDK is available as a zip file...</p>
  <p><a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp" rel="noreferrer">http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp</a></p>
  <p><a href="http://download.java.net/jdk6/" rel="noreferrer">http://download.java.net/jdk6/</a></p>
  <p>Alternately, is it safe to assume that exe installer from sun just will just unzip the whole thing, without messing around with the registry, environment variables, etc...?</p>
  <h3>Related: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/930265/installing-java-manually-on-windows">Installing Java manually on Windows?</a></h3>
  <p>--
  After all this time I found <a href="https://installbuilder.bitrock.com/java/" rel="noreferrer">this</a> site that seems to be exactly what I was looking for (2018-05-22)</p>