Command prompt that knows Java? [duplicate]

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Java REPL shell

Is there a project that makes a command prompt that can execute Java statements? Why not? I'm looking for something like the builtin shell of Python but for Java.

I see there is http://www.beanshell.org/ but that project does not seem very active. But it appears to be what I'm looking for. Are there any other projects like this?

I want to be able to do something like this

$ import org.foobar.Bletch

$ new Bletch();

or similar. Has anyone done this?

Answer 1

You could always use a Clojure REPL - I do this for dynamically playing with Java objects at runtime.

(import 'my.package.SomeClass)

(def a (new SomeClass))

(.methodName a arg1 arg2)

Works pretty well as long as you know the Clojure syntax.