Tooling

JDK

Provides environment and tools to develop and run java applications.

#JRE + #Development Tools

Development Tools

javac

• Java compiler.
• Converts java code to bytecode and generates .class files.
• There can be different implementations of compiler other than javac too.

jdb

• Java Debugger.

javap

• Java Class File Disassembler
• Used to analyze bytecode in .class files.

javadoc

• For generating documentation

jar

• For packaging applications into JAR files.

Maven