Java Development Kit
JDK is an acronym of Java Development Kit.
JDK is an acronym of Java Development Kit.
- It is the most widely used software development kit.
- The JDK has as its primary components a collection of programming tools:
- appletviewer : this tool can be used to run and debug Java applets without a web browser.
- javac : the java compiler, which converts source code into Java bytecode.
- javadoc : the documentation generator, which automatically generates documentation from source code comments.
- Jconsole : Java Monitoring and Management Console.
- visualvm : visual tool integrating several command-line JDK tools and lightweight performance and memory profiling capabilities.
- jrunscript : Java command-line script shell.
- It contains Java Runtime Environment and development tools.