How much hard drive space is needed for Java?

[Ben Briggs]

I looked all over the javasoft site, but I can't find system requirement for the JDK/JVM. I have 108MB of free disk space left. Is this enough for JDK/JVM? If not, I'll stick with learning C, but if it is... I'd love to try out Java :).

Thanks,
Ben

[Energon]

I'm pretty sure that's enough... I think it's somewhere between 20MB and 60MB... I know that file you d/l is a little over 20MB, then unpack that and it's something like 60MB... but I'm not at my workstation, so I can't say for sure...

[nanode]

AFAIK: the jdk is a bit over 20MB. Source files and .class files aren't big either. I've had numerous "large" java projects that could easily fit on a single floppy disk.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

The JDK can be big. The full JDK plus all the html documentation files is 159 megs on my laptop. The html documentation portion is 106 of that; the actual JDK is the other 53 megs. If you're just wanting to run Java programs then the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is much smaller, about 20 meg

[Ben Briggs]

Well looks like I'm gonna try Java (first off, Dru's challenge :)). I'm going to bookmark the documentation, save all the excess space.

Thanks for all you help :D.