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Installing Java SE JDK on top of JRE?

985858Jan 18 2013 — edited Jan 19 2013

Hi List,

this is my first post here and I just have a somewhat general question about best
software installation practices. I want to install the Java SE JDK on my Windows
x86 system and already have the JRE 7 on it.

Now there are two choices I see myself having:

1. deinstall JRE 7 and install a freshly downloaded JDK 7, which includes the JRE.

or

2. simply install JDK 7 over JRE 7.

Are there any differences? Maybe it doesn't even matter how I do it, but this is
something I don't know?

Thanks

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