What is the difference between jdk and sdk

Arnold Laishram Arnold Laishram 1, 1 1 gold badge 15 15 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Please clarify where does JRE fits in your diagram? It's the runtime so when you are building an application it comes inside the JDK but when you are just running the application it is stand alone in which case this diagram doesn't make much sense.

Are you sure jdk is the sdk of java? Considering java se, it could be true but for java ee and java me, i have seen only SDK's provided by Oracle. So, are you really sure about that? Crenguta S Crenguta S 9 9 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Paul Tomblin Paul Tomblin k 56 56 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Parvinder Singh Parvinder Singh 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges.

Nikhil Kashyap Nikhil Kashyap 1, 2 2 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Thirumal Thirumal 27 1 1 bronze badge. There is no difference. Oli Oli k 62 62 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sorry what do you mean by building the JVM? Java applications run inside the Java Virtual Machine.

Like Android or Blackberry both use java along with their framework. The JDK is what you need to write a java program. The JRE is what you need to need to run a java program. This is why Java is known to be Write Once compile once run anywhere. See also Question: How can I control my laptop with my Android phone?

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I believed till now that both term are same. You can find it at Sun's website So what is the difference in these two terms? Answered by jbennet 1, in a post from 13 Years Ago.

SDK includes things like tomact i think Jump to Post. Answered by jwenting 1, in a post from 13 Years Ago. Sun's right. Jump to Post.