Jarminal is to Java what the python shell is to Python

Now jarminal is a linux tool. I will only just post the man page here. Any linux person should be able to read the man page and understand what it does.

jarminal(1)                        Jarminal                        jarminal(1)



NAME
       jarminal - a java interactive shell

SYNOPSIS
       jarminal [option] [command]

LICENSE
       GNU General Public License

DESCRIPTION
       jarminal is a java interactive shell.
       Jarminal  emulates  the  python shell and provides a means of executing
       java commands interactively.
       The normal procedure to executing the smallest java code is

              · create the java file

              · compile the java file

              · execute the java class created from step 2 above

       This might not be effective if all you want to do is test  if  a  small
       code snippet will work or not.
       This  shortcoming  has been the strenght of languages like python where
       you can test some code snippets
       before you finally include them in your project.
       Jarminal makes this interactive shell functionality available  to  java
       programmers too.


OPTIONS
       -e  | --execute escapedstring You can use this option to execute a java
       code without starting the interactive terminal

              SAMPLE jarminal -i "System.out.println(\"Hello World\";"
              NOTE that the Hello World is escaped, and the  final  semi-colon
              is inside the string

       -i | --interactive This command will start the interactive terminal.

              In this mode, you dont have to escape strings
              Classes  can  be  defined  and they are available throughout the
              interactive session
              class declaration can span multiple lines
              You can import java packages and they are  available  throughout
              the session
              Except  for the above, previous commands dont have any effect on
              the new command
              To execute a block of code (normally across multiple lines)  use
              a open and close brace { }
              Control Structures can span multiple lines

              SAMPLE
              jarminal>> System.out.println("Hello World";
              Hello World
              jarminal>> public class One {
                  public void writeSomething(String something) {
                      System.out.println(something);
                  }
              }
              jarminal>>   new   One().writeSomething("jarminal   is  sooooooo
              cool";
              jarminal is sooooooo cool
              jarminal>> for(int i=0; i<5; i++) {
                  new One().writeSomething(String.valueOf(i));
              }
              1
              2
              3
              4
              5
              jarminal>> import javax.swing.*;
              jarminal>>  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,   "jarminal   on
              steroids";
              jarminal>>exit

       -h | --help [fqcn]

              Displays a minimal description of how to use jarminal if fqcn is
              not supplied
              fqcn - Fully Qualified Class Name.
              If   a   fully   qualified   class   name   is   provided    e.g
              java.util.Hashtable jarminal displays a javadoc help page.
              But for this to work, you have to configure the java doc path in
              the config file /etc/jarminal.conf

              The javadoc help functionality can  also  be  invoked  from  the
              interactive shell.

              SAMPLE jarminal>> help java.awt.Dimension




FILES
              /etc/jarminal.conf



0.1                            02 February 2008                    jarminal(1)

The source code is available on github.
www.github.com/segun/jarminal
you can get the rpm too there.

Very interesting.where can i get jarminal.
@javarule
now you know some of python's advantages over java. Good way to start.

yeah python has some power, so is every language if u ask me.

the rpm is here

http://www.filefactory.com/file/afg1g7e/n/jarminal-0_1-1_i386_rpm

if u use debian, just install alien and use alien to convert it to a deb file