Downloading and Installing Anypoint Studio (Windows)

Prerequisites

After downloading and installing the JDK, ensure that your JDK installation is properly configured within the JAVA_HOME environment variable:

In Search, search for System (Control Panel) and select it.
Click Advanced System Settings.
Click Environment Variables.
In System Variables, look for the PATH environment variable:
- If PATH is visible, select it and click Edit to navigate to Edit System Variable.
- If PATH is not visible, click New to navigate to New System Variable.
Ensure that the /bin directory of your JDK 1.8.0 installation is the first item in your PATH environment variable.
Click OK.

Extract the Windows installation file into the C:\ root folder.
- If you are using a Windows antivirus application, ensure that the plugins/ and features/ directories are under the trusted category.
Open the extracted Anypoint Studio.
Click OK to accept the default workspace.

If Anypoint Studio fails to load with a An Error Has Occurred message, you must configure it to point to your JDK installation as the default VM:

Locate your AnypointStudio.ini file inside your Anypoint Studio installation directory.
Add the -vm option to point to your specific JDK installation path.
```
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_73\bin\javaw.exe
```
- The -vm option and the installation path must be on separate lines.
- The value must be the full absolute or relative path to the Java executable, not just to the Java home directory.
- The -vm option must occur after the other Studio-specific options (such as -product, --launcher.*, etc), but before the -vmargs option.
  
  If you encounter Java was started but returned exit code=1 while starting Anypoint Studio, modify the -vm argument to point to the jvm.dll:
  -vm C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_73\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll