posted 19 years ago
You get two configurations for the price of one. Which is free, so it's a pretty good deal. The one under JSDK is part of the developer kit. If you just write code and run it in the JSDK you probably don't need the other.
But you might want to run tests that simulate a customer who only has the bare JRE - the minimal setup for a non-developer to run programs. By mucking about with path & classpath you can launch programs either way.
That's my guess, anyhow. Anybody buy it?
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