Download and Install Workday Studio

Workday Studio is built on the Eclipse development platform. It comprises more than 150 Eclipse plugins in addition to platform and third-party dependencies. To use it, you need 2 versions of the Java™ Development Kit (JDK):

Eclipse requires a JDK compatible with Java version 11.

The Studio runtime requires a JDK compatible with Java version 8.

Install both JDKs and then ensure that:

Your Java Runtime Environment is set to Java 8.

Your JDK compiler compliance level is set to Java 1.8.

Download and install a JDK that's compatible with Java version 11. You can download the software from Oracle or you can use the free open-source implementation, OpenJDK.

Users of Apple silicon such as the M1 and M2 chipsets must use an x86_64 JDK. A JDK for ARM processors won't work.

Source	Notes
Oracle JDK 1.1	Requires a commercial license. You can download the Oracle JDK 1.11 installer for your operating system here.
OpenJDK 11	Doesn't require a commercial license. OpenJDK is available from a number of sources. Example: you can download the Zulu OpenJDK installer here.

Download and install a JDK that's compatible with Java version 8. You can download the software from Oracle or you can use the free open-source implementation, OpenJDK.

Studio requires a JDK that's compatible with Java 8 specifically, not Java 8 as a minimum.

Source	Notes
Oracle JDK 1.8	Requires a commercial license. You can download the Oracle JDK 1.8 installer for your operating system here.
OpenJDK 8	Doesn't require a commercial license. OpenJDK is available from a number of sources. Example: you can download the Zulu OpenJDK installer here.

Download the Workday Studio installer:

Platform	Download Link
Windows (x86, 64-bit)	Self-Extracting Installation File
macOS (x86, 64-bit)	Executable Jar File

To launch the installation on Windows, double-click the installation executable file. To install Studio in the C:\Program Files folder, you must run the executable as an Administrator by right-clicking it and selecting

Run as Administrator

You can use the Command Prompt application to run a silent Studio installation on Windows. In Command Prompt, navigate to the directory where you saved the installation file and enter:

<Installation_Filename>.exe /S /J=<Java_Home> /D=<Installation_Directory>

where the argument:

specifies silent installation.

specifies the JDK 11 path.

/RD

installs Workday Report Designer.

specifies the installation folder (this argument must be the last in the command).

Example:

workday-studio-x86_64.exe /S /J=C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu11.62.17-ca-jdk11.0.18-win_x64 /D=C:\Studio

To launch the installation on macOS, open the installation .jar file.

Read the license agreement, then select the terms acceptance check box. Click

Browse to the directory where you wish to install Studio. Click

Browse to the location of your JDK 11 installation and click

. Examples of JDK installation locations:

Windows: C:\Program Files\Zulu\zulu11.62.17-ca-jdk11.0.18-win_x64

macOS: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-11.jdk/Contents/Home

If the JVM details are correct, click

Confirm

. Otherwise, click

Back

Select the

Report Designer

pack to install it alongside Workday Studio. You can also install Report Designer later from within Studio.

When Studio displays the Installation Complete message, click

, then click

Finish

Eclipse with Java 11 can't use a Workspace created by Eclipse with Java 8. On launch, you can update your existing Workspace to make it compatible with Java 11. Alternatively, you can create an entirely new compatible Workspace. Once you've updated your Workspace, you can't use it with earlier versions of Studio.

To ensure that Java 8 is available as a Java Runtime Environment in Studio, navigate to its

Preferences

panel:

Windows:

Window

Preferences

Java

Installed JREs

macOS:

Workday Studio

Preferences

Java

Installed JREs

If Java 8 is missing, click

Add

and select Standard VM
as the JRE Type. Specify the