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

you can script java using jruby http://kenai.com/projects/jruby/pages/CallingJavaFromJRuby