What is SDK and JRE

What are these two things. I have installed java and it works but I don't know what I have installed. I am confused about wht SDK and JRE are.
Thanks,

Hi
Well...SDK stands for Software Development Kit
and JRE stands for Java Runtime Environment.......
so the JRE is part of the SDK......
SDK contains for instance the java API, the compilers and the applet viewer
JRE contains the virtual machine needed to run java code
Enough info yet???? otherwise...look around at the SUN : )

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