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In this book, various examples are tried out directly on the console. This is primarily because Java offers the interactive command line application JShell as a REPL since version 9. In this appendix, you will get to know JShell briefly.
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Nearly every (professional) developer has his IDE open almost all the time anyway, at least while working. Therefore he could use a main() method to do something similar, but with the advantage of direct syntax check and auto-complete.
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Exactly: Both apply only to the commands in the jshell, but not if you define methods or classes. Then you have to provide a semicolon and handle exceptions.
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Inden, M. (2022). Quick Start for JShell. In: Java Challenges. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7395-1_12
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