Java - Exteact JDK from .exe

Steps
  1. Download JDK from Oracle
  2. Download and Install 7-zip from here
  3. Open installition exe using 7-Zip
  4. Extract the tools.zip
  5. Extract the content of tools.zip to a folder (e.g. c:\jdk).
  6. Open the extracted folder in cmd prompt.
  7. Execute for /r %x in (*.pack) do .\bin\unpack200 -r "%x" "%~dx%~px%~nx.jar" command
  8. Set JAVA_HOME to the jdk (e.g c:\jdk) folder.
  9. Add %JAVA_HOME%/bin to the PATH env variable.
Testing
Run the following command to check the installation, it will print the version of JDK.
c:> javac -version
javac 1.7.0_51
NOTE: Tested with JDK 1.7 and 1.8
Update 1
Edited the answer to add the steps in the answer itself instead of the link to a blog post.
Update 2
For 64-Bit please check unpack-jdk-x64.bat by grabantot

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