If so, there’s a good chance you’ve used a REPL as a part of your daily routine ... so you’ll have to clone a Mercurial project, compile the JDK, and compile JShell yourself.

In the formal proposal for JShell (JEP 222), the project's members describe the motivation for creating a Java REPL: Immediate feedback is important when learning a programming language. The number ...

In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use enabled by REPL and Java’s setback with the lack of this capability. “Instead of having to construct and compile complete ...

Java 9 introduced JShell, a read-evaluate-print and loop (REPL) tool that greatly simplifies Java development ... will get the uninitiated wanting to use it. You don’t need to compile your Java code.