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Janardhan Pulivarthi
Janardhan Pulivarthi

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Day 9 of 100 - Java: About JDK

Basics

JDK - Java Development Kit contains,

JRE - Java runtime environment contains code behind all the variable types and built-in functions (eg. println, Scanner). It also include a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which allows Java code to run on any platform!

Javac - Java Compiler

Program code -> Compiler -> Translated code
Java code -> javac -> Bytecode -> JVM -> Machine code


I feel like like reading/doing something else today.

Links
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk17-windows

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