Is there something like python's interactive REPL mode, but for Java?

Question

Is there something like python\'s interactive REPL mode, but for Java? So that I can, for example, type InetAddress.getAllByName( localHostName ) in a window, a

Answer 1

The groovy console allows you to do that. It actually was meant to try and test groovy code, but since groovy is a superset of Java, it allows plain Java stuff as well.

I just entered this into the console:

InetAddress.getAllByName('localhost')

and hit CTRL-R, then it returned:

groovy> InetAddress.getAllByName('localhost')

Result: [localhost/127.0.0.1]