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Posted July 12, 2016 8:47am by

Why do we need JDK and not JRE only?

Thanks!

1 Answer

July 12, 2016 10:14am

JDK stands for "Java Development Kit", and JRE stands for "Java Runtime Environment". The JDK contains everything necessary to develop Java code, but the JRE (what most people have installed) is only capable of running it

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