Is Java 1.6 the same as JDK 6?

Question

I\'m taking a computer science course and the syllabus says download java 1.6. I don\'t find a java 1.6, everything says JDK 6. When I googled java 1.6 I found this link:

Answer 1

They are the same. Here is Sun's discussion of that and other naming discrepancies.