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Updating development tools

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to begin our migration to Java 11 by updating the JDK and IDE on our local workstations. This is a pretty common first step in every migration because it provides a working environment where the application can be migrated prior to promoting it to upper environments. First, we're going to need to install our target JDK for the application. This is going to be JDK 11, since it is the latest LTS release. If we take a peek at my machine in PowerShell, you'll see that currently I have Java 8 installed and we're going to navigate to the adoptopenjdk.net website in order to get JDK 11 from our provider AdoptOpenJDK. You'll notice that the website provides us with a nice form where we can specify the JDK binary version that we would like to obtain and also select between a JVM. So in our case, we're going to use the HotSpot JVM and we're going to use OpenJDK 11. Once we've made…

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