Can someone tell me the difference of JRE from J2RE

[bloodhound]

i just want to download the java runtime environment. When i go to http://www.java.com , the j2re 1.4 blah blah is available from download. while if i go to azureus home page they link you to suns page where jre 1.5 is available for download. can anyone tell me whats the difference.

[Sayonara]

JRE is the Java Runtime Environment, and J2RE is the Java 2 Runtime Environment.

 

You want to be using J2RE unless you have any specific reason not to (i.e. if you need support for deprecated features).

[bloodhound]

currently i have J2SE runtime enviroment 5.0 as recommended by the homepage of azureus.

 

available here

 

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp (the third download)

 

how is that different from the official j2re available from http://www.java.com