The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a development environment for building Java applications and applets that can then run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The JDK includes a variety of development ...

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), also known as Java Runtime, is the part of the Java Development Kit (JDK) that contains and orchestrates the set of tools and minimum requirements for executing a ...

The JDK contains a set of compilers and related tools for the Java language, as well as the JVM and its diagnostic tools. The JVM works with bytecodes and converts them into machine code.

The JDK is the development platform for building Java applications. Learn about different JDK versions, then install a JDK in your development environment and use it to compile a Java program.

The JRE is the on-disk software component that takes your compiled Java code (the code is compiled with the JDK), combines it with the required libraries, and starts the JVM to execute it.