Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Difference between JDK, JRE and JVM

 

Q. What is the difference between JDK, JRE and JVM ?

 

Ans: JDK is an acronym for Java Development Kit.It physically exists.It contains JRE + development tools e.g javac,java etc.


JRE is an acronym for Java Runtime Environment.The JRE provides the libraries, Java virtual machine, and other components necessary to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language.


JVM is the acronym for Java virtual machine.It is an abstract computing machine that has an instruction set and manipulates memory at run time.JVM is platform dependent.

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