A quick question for you. In your YouTube tutorials on how to set up a Bukkit server, you instruct to download the Java JDK, instead of regular Java. Is there any particular reason? I always get the regular Java.
the jdk has more advanced features and allows a separation of processes between your client and server run time environments if you plan to use the same machine for both. there are also performance enhancements in the jdk that are richer in nature than the standard java.exe. (java crashing on one does not effect the other and you end up with better performance)