How to download and install Apache BCEL Binary Package?

An Apache BCEL Binary Package is an pre-compiled version of Apache BCEL compressed into a single file like bcel-6.5.0-bin.zip. An Apache BCEL Binary Package is ready to run in a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) environment on Windows, Mac or Linux systems.

If you want to use Apache BCEL in your Java 8+ environment, you can follow these steps to download and install bcel-6.5.0-bin.zip:

1. Apache BCEL Website.

2. Click the "Download" link from the left side menu. You see the download page showing up.

3. Click and download "bcel-6.5.0-bin.zip" in the "Apache Commons BCEL 6.5.0 (Java 8)" section.

4. Save the downloaded file as bcel-6.5.0-bin.zip.

5. Unzip the downloaded file apacbcel-6.5.0-bin.zip. Extracted files will be in a sub-directory called bcel-6.5.0.

6. Check extracted files:

> cd bcel-6.5.0
> dir 
      3018   bcel-6.5.0/apidocs/index.html

   2629781   bcel-6.5.0/bcel-6.5.0-javadoc.jar
    695764   bcel-6.5.0/bcel-6.5.0-sources.jar
    110106   bcel-6.5.0/bcel-6.5.0-test-sources.jar
    132227   bcel-6.5.0/bcel-6.5.0-tests.jar
    695048   bcel-6.5.0/bcel-6.5.0.jar
     11358   bcel-6.5.0/LICENSE.txt
       179   bcel-6.5.0/NOTICE.txt
     26876   bcel-6.5.0/RELEASE-NOTES.txt
     14024   bcel-6.5.0/src/examples/ClassDumper.java
  
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  29269201   1304 files

Installation is done.

⇒ Apache BCEL 6.5.0 Source Code Files

⇐ Apache BCEL Source Code Files

⇑ Apache BCEL (Byte Code Engineering Library)

⇑⇑ Java Bytecode Tools