While a REPL is certainly possible for Java, it won’t be as useful as for an expression-oriented language.” Facemire, however, expects REPL to “be in vogue before you know it,” with new ...

Java developers are slated to get REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) capability via jshell with next year’s planned Java 9 release. In a recent blog post, Oracle’s Jim Connors cited the ease of use ...

Voting on the project begins on Sept 10. If approved, it will use code cloned from JDK 9 to create the Java REPL tool. More information can be found on Project Kulla’s discussion thread.