Quote originally posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDK ...
The JDK is a subset of what is loosely defined as a Software development kit (SDK) in the general sense. In the descriptions which accompany their recent releases for Java SE, EE, and ME, Sun acknowledge that under their terminology, the JDK forms the subset of the SDK which is responsible for the writing and running of Java programs. The remainder of the SDK is composed of extra software, such as Application Servers, Debuggers, and Documentation.
I know. It's also known to revert corrections back to a state where the article is in error though.
I've pretty much given up trying to correct things for that reason if the correction is more than a single word.
Conceptually, SDK(Software Development Kit) is superset of JDK. It comes with Java Development Kit and additional components like Netbeans IDE which helps to develop software.
jwenting is correct and you can find the same explanation on java.sun.com . . JDK is an SDK. They probably just call it JDK instead for the same reason that so many other things in Java have that J.
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