Java Challenges: 100+ Proven Tasks that Will Prepare You for Anything

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M. IndenJava Challengeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7395-1_12

Quick Start for JShell

Michael Inden¹  

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Zurich, Switzerland

 

In this book, various examples are tried out directly on the console. This is primarily because Java offers the interactive command line application JShell as a REPL since version 9. In this appendix, you will get to know JShell briefly.

1 Java + REPL => jshell

The tool jshell was integrated in the JDK with Java 9. This tool allows an interactive working style and the execution of small source code snippets, as it is already familiar from various other programming languages. This is also known as REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop ). Thereby, ...