Procedure for installing and setting Sun JDK Java 7 on Default Amazon Linux AMI

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# First verify the version of Java being used is not SunJSK.
java -version

# Get the latest Sun Java SDK from Oracle
wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.rpm

# Install Java
sudo rpm -i jdk-7u80-linux-x64.rpm

# Check if the default java version is set to sun jdk
java -version

# If not then lets create one more alternative for Java for Sun JDK
sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_80/bin/java 20000

# Set the SUN JDK as the default java
sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java

# Verify if change in SDK was done.
java -version