Category Archives: DrJava

We’ve been getting tons of pharmaceutical spam on the DrJava trackers (bug reports, feature requests, support requests) today. Unfortunately, when it comes to limiting the amount of spam from automated bots, the only mechanism that SourceForge provides is requiring users … Continue reading →

I found another university that uses DrJava in its CS curriculum: The University of Western Ontario teaches CS 1026: Computer Science Fundamentals I using DrJava. The course is based on Mark Guzdial’s and Barbara Ericson’s Media Computation textbook. Having had … Continue reading →

I just filed a bug report for a serious problem with DrJava that we need to look at. It’s possible to make DrJava hang, or at least slow it down so much that it appears unresponsive, by printing out very … Continue reading →

We have made an updated stable version available: drjava-stable-20100913-r5387. You can download it from the DrJava website or from SourceForge. Available for download at http://drjava.org . DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven software development. … Continue reading →

I just used a DrJava feature that I pretty much forgot about: Auto-Refresh Project. It scans the project root for new source files and adds them to the project. It works really well. The feature was implemented under my supervision. … Continue reading →

I had mentioned a while ago that the way we put together the commands that get interpreted when the user presses the “Run” button or types in java or applet or run in the Interactions Pane is very messy. I … Continue reading →

We have just released a new stable release of DrJava: drjava-stable-20100816-r5366. You can download it from SourceForge or from the DrJava homepage. Available for download at http://drjava.org . DrJava is a lightweight programming environment for Java designed to foster test-driven … Continue reading →

Recently, I was asked if there will ever be a new DrC# which is similar to DrJava. Unfortunately, I don’t expect an improved DrC# in the near future. We don’t have the funding and personnel to work on such a … Continue reading →

Our DrJava website is currently not available under the usual address (http://drjava.org). We are working on fixing this problem as quickly as possible. If you need access to the DrJava website in the meantime, please use one of these two … Continue reading →

Vincent from the Habanero research group actually asked me to make the change of setting the Polyglot classpath to be the same as the Soot classpath. That involved spending about a day figuring out how to even build Habanero Java, … Continue reading →

I’m trying to integrate the Habanero Java compiler into DrJava in a way that doesn’t require all the compiler classes to be present in the DrJava jar file. I want it to behave the same as javac, Mint, or NextGen. … Continue reading →

This isn’t really going to be well-formatted, but I want to write down a few things that I have on my mind… This blog is for me anyway, not for you. I need to rewrite the DrJava JDK descriptors to … Continue reading →

A while ago, I introduced what was supposed to be a “Smart Run” feature, a simpler way of running Java programs, ACM Java Task Force programs, and applets. It sort of worked, but it has been difficult to get it … Continue reading →

From Slashdot: “In Java 1.6.0_21, the company field was changed from ‘Sun Microsystems, Inc’ to ‘Oracle.’ Apparently not the best idea, because some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine. All Eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) … Continue reading →