What is JDK? Where we use JDK?

> It always amazes me how people can find this forum,

> but yet cannot find their answer with a simple google

> query....

I don't know how it kicked off, but I'm sure the problem is exacerbated by Google listing links to the pages of people asking "I have doubt. how u do X thnx?" here and in the Generics and Reflection & Reference objects topics...

dcmintera at 2007-7-13 10:11:14 >

It's not *that* stupid a question. I mean, if you were a developer, but had never used Java before, why would you automatically know the differences between the JDK, JRE, SDK, J2SE, Java 5, J2EE, etc. ?

I know when I first investigated J2EE I had vaguely assumed that it would include the development tools.

Until you dive into the tutorials it's not explained very clearly what the distinctions are. Even now Sun tend to use some internal acronyms which aren't clearly defined anywhere (don't get me started about "FCS").

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the cause of marketing idiocy (see Java and Solaris/SunOS version numbering) if they managed to make the names clearer, instead of confusing potential new customers.

But hey, what dos that matter so long as it goes to 11?

No, the OP is just asking in a really dumb place...

dcmintera at 2007-7-13 10:11:14 >