Is there any program like LINQPad for Java?

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StriplingWarrior picture StriplingWarrior · Jan 31, 2011 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I've found LINQPad to be extremely useful when answering StackOverflow questions for C# or VB.NET. It allows me to write up some quick code, run it, and (if I want) see a nicely-formatted dump of the results. That way I can be sure that the code I post actually runs. Thus far I haven't seen anything that I can use to achieve the same result with Java. Is there anything like that out there?

I am not looking for something to query data sources; I just want a light-weight IDE. These are the features I'm particularly interested in:

  • The ability to write and run short snippets of code without establishing a whole project or file structure.
  • Reporting of compiler and runtime errors in the code when it is run.
  • The ability to add references to a particular editor instance.
  • Syntax highlighting and Autocomplete/Intellisense would be a plus.

Answer

Ryan Hamilton picture Ryan Hamilton · Feb 3, 2016

JPad - A java scratchpad for running snippets

JPAD Java scratchpad IDE

Since I also couldn't find one I've decided to write one. Currently it can:

  1. Run java snippets (no class / imports / public blah... needed).
  2. Contains drivers for MS/MySQL/Postgres.
  3. Output results as HTML tables

It's very rough but I will add to it over time. Feedback is definitely welcome.

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