Procedure for installing and setting Sun JDK Java 6 on Amazon Linux AMI 64bit

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# Get latest Sun Java SDK in v6 from Oracle 
wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u31-b04/jdk-6u31-linux-x64-rpm.bin

# make it exec
chmod +x jdk-6u31-linux-x64-rpm.bin

# Install Java
sudo ./jdk-6u31-linux-x64-rpm.bin

# Check if the default java version is set to sun jdk
# Normally it says OpenJDK
java -version

# Lets create one more alternative for Java for Sun JDK
sudo /usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_31/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