DrJava is a lightweight IDE for the

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. Designed primarily for beginners and actively developed and maintained by the JavaPLT group at

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, its interface uses Sun Microsystems'

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toolkit and therefore has a consistent appearance on different platforms. DrJava has the ability to interactively evaluate Java code from a console and to present output as well to the same console. It has many other features that have been designed for advanced users as well. DrJava offers a JUnit test facility. There have been 4,332,375 downloads .

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List of DrJava publications
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