A Concise Understanding of Java’s JVM, JRE and JDK

Ijeoma Nelson
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJul 30, 2020

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For anyone beginning their journey into Java development, you will at some point (very soon) run into the acronyms JVM, JRE and JDK. This article is written to give you a very clear and concise definition of those terms and also the problems they solve.

Fun Fact: The orginal purpose of JAVA was not the internet!

The Solution OF Java

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An ex-Deloitte Software Engineer and Writer who loves collecting inspirations whilst exploring this wondrous world.