J2SDK
The development platform used in this class is the Java 2 Software
Development Kit (J2SDK), Standard Edition, v 1.4 or higher. The Java 2
SDK was previously known as the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.2. In fact,
if you check your installation of the Java 2 SDK is backward compatible
with JDK1.1. It contains several components, including:
The Java Runtime environment (JRE), which provides the JVM.
The development tools and compilation libraries necessary to
create Java applications, servlets and applets. This includes the
Just In Time (JIT) compiler, debugging programs and tools to run
applets without a browser.
