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.

A Million Downloads of DrJava

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

1,028,388

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

(statistics by SourceForge)

Most Recent Beta Release

A new beta release of DrJava (drjava-beta-20100711-r5314) is now available with improvements from the recent development releases! Please help us test this version in preparation for the next stable release. You can read the release notes on the SourceForge download page.

Current Stable Release

The current stable release for DrJava is drjava-stable-20090821-r5004. This version supports Java 5 and Java 6. You can read the release notes on the SourceForge download page.

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News and Updates

DrJava News and Updates

DrJava Reaches One Million Download Milestone

The JavaPLT group is pleased to announce that DrJava recently passed the milestone of one million downloads since its inception as a SourceForge open source project in 2002. The DrJava developers want to thank all the users of DrJava for making the project so successful.

DrJava Beta Release 20100507-r5246

A new DrJava beta release is available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

DrJava Beta Release 20100415-r5220

A new DrJava beta release is available for download at http://drjava.org .

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to

DrJava Development Release 20091021

A new DrJava development release is

DrJava Stable Release 20090821

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

DrJava is a lightweight programming environment


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