J2SE 5.0 or JDK 1.5?

[Matt]

I want to know if J2SE 5.0 and JDK 1.5 are identical terms?
We can use either one interchangably.

Please advise. thanks!!

 

[Chris Smith]

I want to know if J2SE 5.0 and JDK 1.5 are identical terms?
We can use either one interchangably.

Yes.

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[Andrew Thompson]

I want to know if J2SE 5.0 ..

Thought up by the Sun marketing people basically, because they
thought they were running too far behind in the 'versioning'
numbers used by their competitors.

..and JDK 1.5 are identical terms?

No. The '1.5' represents the next logical version number for Java.

We can use either one interchangably.

I would use '1.5' when conversing with other developers.
( If you do not want to be seen as someone gullible enough
to swallow the guff spun by Sun's marketing people. ;-)

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

I want to know if J2SE 5.0 and JDK 1.5 are identical terms?
We can use either one interchangably.

Not quite. The version/marketing thing aside, J2SE 5.0 is the platform
specification, while the JDK is Sun's implementation of this specification,
and particularly the one that includes a development environment (as opposed
to the JRE(runtime)-only distribution).