Keywords Keywords are the predefined words in a program,we can't alter the meaning of keywords. Ex:- for,do,if,class,public. There are almost 62 keywords are in java Identifiers Which is used to give name for a variable or class or methods. Rules for a valid identifier are, *identifiers name must need to begin with an alphabet not by a number.(i.e. 1name is invalid name1 is valid) *Keywords will not be an identifier *Case sensitive, upper case and lower case are treated differently (if you have a variable HELLO and hello, system will treat both in differently)