Differences between JDK, JRE and JVM

JAVA DEVELOPMENT KIT

The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a software development environment used for developing Java applications and applets. It includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), an interpreter/loader (Java), a compiler (javac), an archiver (jar), a documentation generator (Javadoc) and other tools needed in Java development

JAVA RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT

JREstands for“Java Runtime Environment”and may also be written as“Java RTE.”The Java Runtime Environment provides the minimum requirements for executing a Java application; it consists of theJava Virtual Machine (JVM), core classes, andsupporting files.