The Java Development Kit (JDK)


The Java Development Kit (JDK) contains everything you need to develop and execute Java applications and applets. If you are using Linux, Solaris, or Windows, the JDK can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Sun Microsystems web site http://java.sun.com, which also has installation instructions for each of those systems. If you are using FreeBSD, a port of the JDK is available on the web at http://www.freebsd.org/java/. Mac OS X comes with the JDK preinstalled. This chapter was written using the J2SE 5.0 JDK, but almost all of it should be relevant to other versions of Java.

The JDK includes a JVM, as well as a compiler for creating bytecode. Other tools included in the JDK are an interpreter, an applet viewer, and a documentation generator. The Java class libraries are also part of the JDK. These provide a wealth of functionality you can leverage when creating your own Java programs.




UNIX. The Complete Reference
UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition (Complete Reference Series)
ISBN: 0072263369
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 316

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