DrJava

{{Short description|Java integrated development environment}}

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{{Infobox Software

| name = DrJava

| logo = 150px

| screenshot = drjava-screen-osx.png

| caption = DrJava on Mac OS X Tiger

| developer = JavaPLT group at Rice University

| released = {{start date and age|2002|06|19}}

| latest release version = drjava-stable-20140826-r5761

| latest release date = {{start date and age|2014|08|26}}

| latest preview version = drjava-beta-2019-220051

| latest preview date = {{start date and age|2019|08|13}}

| programming language = Java

| operating system = Cross-platform

| language = English

| genre = Java IDE

| license = DrJava Open Source License (BSD-style license)

| website = {{url|https://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/drjava/}}

}}

DrJava is a lightweight IDE for the Java programming language. Designed primarily for beginners and actively developed and maintained by the JavaPLT group at Rice University, its interface uses Sun Microsystems' Swing toolkit and therefore has a consistent appearance on different platforms.{{Cite web |title=DrJava |url=https://drjava.sourceforge.net/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=drjava.sourceforge.net}} DrJava has the ability to interactively evaluate Java code from a console and to present output as well to the same console.{{Cite web |title=DrJava |url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs1130/2012sp/1130lectures/drjava.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=www.cs.cornell.edu}} It has many other features that have been designed for advanced users as well. DrJava offers a JUnit test facility.

There have been 4,332,375 downloads {{as of|2021|05|1|df=US|lc=y}}.{{cite web|title=Download statistics for DrJava|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/drjava/files/stats/timeline?dates=2002-01-01%20to%202021-05-01&period=monthly|url-status=live|publisher=SourceForge|accessdate=September 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520020023/https://sourceforge.net/projects/drjava/files/stats/timeline?dates=2002-01-01%20to%202021-05-01&period=monthly |archive-date=2021-05-20 }}

Version history

The version history of DrJava, as well as links for downloading the various versions, is maintained at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/drjava/files/ SourceForge].

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