The company I worked for used JEXT (another open source code editor written in Java) as a production tool. Due to its poor performance, I began an investigation on creating another solution ...

First things first, you will have to write the code that you want to run and save that as a Java executable file. For this purpose, you can use either MS Word or Notepad.

The developer of the highly popular open source Notepad++ text and source code editor for Windows announced that the program will drop code signing support starting with the 7.6.4 release.