Java 9 introduced JShell, a read-evaluate-print and loop (REPL) tool that greatly simplifies Java development ... You don’t need to compile your Java code. Java programs will run without a main method ...

With a Java REPL, developers will be able to write code, execute that code, and then continue to evolve their code on-the-fly without having to exit in order to run a build and so forth.

"What is an REPL?" you ask. An REPL is a command-line tool for quickly running statements. In my description, the word "statements" is important. In Java, you normally don't run a single statement or ...

Java developers are slated to get REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) capability via jshell with next year’s planned Java 9 release. In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use ...