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Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool with integrated code
coverage.

In addition to bug fixes, this beta release includes an important
new feature not present in prior releases:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org.

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, a unit testing tool, and a new code coverage tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this beta release includes two new features introduced since the last stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this stable release includes one important
new feature introduced after the last stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this stable release includes a number of new features introduced after the last stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this stable release supports Java 7 in addition
to Java 5 and 6. It is nearly identical to the previous beta release.

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this beta release
includes a two new features introduced after the last
development release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this development release includes a number
of new features introduced after the last stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

This stable release represents an update to the previous stable
release, providing a bug fix for three issues that proved to be
inconvenient for users.... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this stable release includes a number of new
features introduced after the last beta release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes in anticipation of the next stable release,
this beta release includes a number of new features introduced after
the last beta release:... read more

The JavaPLT group is pleased to announce that DrJava recently passed the milestone of one million downloads since its inception as a SourceForge open source project in 2002. The DrJava developers want to thank all the users of DrJava for making the project so successful.

DrJava is a lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) for writing Java programs. It is designed primarily for students, providing an intuitive interface and the ability to interactively evaluate Java code in an “Interactions Pane”. It also includes powerful features for more advanced users including the DrJava developers. DrJava is freely distributed under the BSD License, and it is still under active development by the JavaPLT group at Rice University.... read more

A new DrJava beta release is available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes in anticipation of the next stable release,
this beta release includes a number of new features introduced after
the last beta release:... read more

A new DrJava beta release is available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to
foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent
program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes in anticipation of the next stable release,
this beta release includes a number of new features introduced after
the last stable release:... read more

A new DrJava development release is
available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment
for Java designed to foster test-driven software
development. It includes an intelligent program editor,
an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this development release
includes a number of new features introduced after the
last stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment
for Java designed to foster test-driven software
development. It includes an intelligent program editor,
an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this stable release includes
a number of new features introduced after the last
stable release:... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment
for Java designed to foster test-driven software
development. It includes an intelligent program editor,
an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes in anticipation of the
next stable release, this second beta release
includes a number of new features introduced after
the last beta release:... read more

We now have instructions on how to use DrJava with the
AP CS GridWorld Case Study on our website at
http://drjava.org/index-apcs.html
Pre-made DrJava project files are also available.

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment
for Java designed to foster test-driven software
development. It includes an intelligent program editor,
an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool. ... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment
for Java designed to foster test-driven software
development. It includes an intelligent program editor,
an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a
source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

In addition to bug fixes, this beta release includes
a number of new features introduced after the last
stable release:... read more

DrJava development release drjava-20090402-r4864 has been posted.

Release Notes:

Available for download at http://drjava.org . In addition to bug fixes, this release includes a number of new features: Default imports for the Interactions Pane, inner classes as main class for projects, Javadocs and auto-completion for JUnit, Javadocs and auto-completion for user-defined libraries ("Additional Javadoc URLs"), automatic trace and array element watches in the debugger, and an automatic update feature that downloads new versions of DrJava automatically.... read more

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

Available for download at http://drjava.org . This development release re-introduces the work-around for "cannot read zip file entry" errors occurring when Windows exe users attempt to compile using javac 1.6.0_04+. This fix had accidentally been removed in the last development release.

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

Available for download at http://drjava.org. This development release contains some new features and several bug fixes that improve performance and stability. Most notable is the ability to close the System.in stream in the Interactions Pane.... read more

This update to the DrJava Eclipse plug-in integrates bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features added to DrJava over the last two years. Significantly, the Interactions interpreter has been rewritten to fully support generics, type inference, and other Java 5 features. The plug-in also improves compatibility with the latest versions of Eclipse.

CHANGED INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Unzip drjava-eclipse-20090115-r4708.zip to access the plug-in jar file: edu.rice.cs.drjava_0.9.9.20090115-r4708.jar. Copy the plug-in jar to your Eclipse installation's plug-in directory. Additional packaging (README, etc.) may be discarded.... read more

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. It includes an intelligent program editor, an interactions pane for evaluating program text, a source level debugger, and a unit testing tool.

Available for download at http://drjava.org. This is a minor update to the recent stable release, fixing a bug in the execution of unit tests.

Notes from the original stable release (20080828):... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org. This release incorporates a number of improvements since the last DrJava stable release.

Most prominently, a bug in JDK 1.6.0_04+ has rendered previous stable versions of "drjava.exe" unusable when compiling with affected JDKs (a "Cannot read zip file entry" error will occur). This release addresses the issue.

Major new features include i) an improved Interactions interpreter with full support for generics and ii) integrated support for external-process-based tools. Performance of "Find Next" and "Find All" has been dramatically improved, as well as the performance of auto-indenting.... read more

Available for download at http://drjava.org. This beta release incorporates a number of improvements since the last DrJava stable release.

Most prominently, a bug in JDK 1.6.0_04+ has rendered previous stable versions of "drjava.exe" unusable when compiling with affected JDKs (a "Cannot read zip file entry" error will occur). This release addresses the issue.

Major new features include an improved Interactions interpreter with full support for generics and integrated support for external-process-based tools. Performance of "Find Next" and "Find All" has been dramatically improved, as well as the performance of auto-indenting.... read more