what is the difeerence between jdk and jre?

[Tomendra Singh]

what are the uses of both,what jdk provides and what jre provides,

and which one have the jvm, to run any .class file on any operating system do we only need of jre.

which one have the java compiler and which one interpreter.



i am very confused about to take both , please help mr to clear these.

[Christophe Verré]

18. What is a JVM? JRE? JDK? J2SDK?

[Tomendra Singh]

thank you very much Christophe.
but still 1 am confused about interpreter.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Java is called an interpreted language because the code is not compiled to machine code which the computer executes; rather it is converted to "bytecode" which the java program reads and passes on to the CPU in a format which the CPU can execute.
That means you can have a different java program on Linux, on Mac, on Windows, on an Intel chip, a PPC chip, etc, and the same bytecode will run on all those platforms.
Also the java program can insert some security between the bytecode and execution. "Some" security-not much, however.

[Tomendra Singh]

thank you campbell.

but i also want to know that which one have interpreter.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The interpreter is part of the JVM, which is part of all Java installations, JRE or JDK.