April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
JShell is a new tool introduced with Java 9. It is an interactive read-eval-print loop tool that is used to evaluate the following Java programming language components--declarations, statements, and expressions. It has its own API so that it can be used by external applications.
The introduction of JShell was a result of Java Enhancement Program (JEP) 222. Here are the stated goals of this JEP in regards to the Java Shell command-line tool:
The rapid investigation and coding listed previously ...