DrJava Beta Release 2019-220051

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:

DrJava now includes an OpenJDK 8 compiler which should work if DrJava
is run with any Java 8 JRE/JDK. Previous versions of DrJava included
an Eclipse batch compiler which only appeared when DrJava was run
using a Java JRE. In some configurations, it did not appear at all.

On Windows and Mac computes, we recommend using the Amazon Corretto
distribution of Java OpenJDK 8. On Linux, the standard OpenJDK 8
compiler available from various Linux repositories should work.

Note: compatibility with Java versions prior to Java 8 has been
dropped. Newer versions of Java (9, 10, 11, 12) are not supported
because they use an incompatible format for Java distributions. We
may release a version of DrJava in the future that supports the new
Java distribution format.