About DrJava

DrJava is a lightweight development environment for writing Java programs. It is designed primarily for students, providing an intuitive interface and the ability to interactively evaluate Java code. It also includes powerful features for more advanced users. DrJava is available for free under the BSD License, and it is under active development by the JavaPLT group at Rice University.

Current Stable Release

The current stable release for DrJava is drjava-stable-20120818-r5686. This version supports Java 5, 6, and 7. You can read the release notes on the SourceForge download page.

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A Million Downloads of DrJava


We have reached a million downloads of DrJava. There have been

1,589,871

downloads as of last midnight. Thank you for making DrJava so successful!

(statistics by SourceForge)

News and Updates

DrJava News and Updates

DrJava Stable Release 20120818-r5686

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

drjava-beta-20110822-r5448

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

DrJava Development Release 20110205-r5425

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

DrJava Stable Release 20100913-r5387

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

DrJava Stable Release 20100816-r5366

Available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to


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Hosted by SourceForge.net DrJava has been partially funded by the National Science Foundation, the Texas Advanced Technology Program, and Sun Microsystems, Inc.