Is there a way to run short bits of Java code without compiling?

Question

Is there a way to run or simulate running Java statements (kind of like IDLE - the Python GUI) without compiling and running the executable? I want to quickly test statement

Answer 1

You can accomplish this with Groovy and the Groovy Console, with the caveat that you'd need to know how to express whatever you are trying to express in Java in the Groovy language: