Java-Editor

Integrated Java development environment designed for school teaching

Java-Editor is a free integrated development environment for Java aimed at teaching settings where full-featured IDEs may be too demanding for available hardware. It pairs a source editor with visual tools for class modelling, GUI design, structograms and sequence diagrams.

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Key facts

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Free plan: No
Free trial: No
Open source: No

What it does

Class modeler for creating and editing java classes with attributes and methods
Uml window for interactively creating objects and calling constructors and methods
Gui designer using absolute positioning with drag and drop placement of awt swing and fx components
Object inspector for configuring gui components with synchronized source code
Structogram editor with drag and drop insertion and removal of elements
Generation of java programs or methods from structograms
Puzzle mode with easy medium hard and very hard difficulty variants for structogram exercises
Sequence diagram tool with lifelines actors and connections
Display of debugger sessions as sequence diagrams
Source code editor with syntax highlighting based on the synedit component
Clipboard undo redo search and replace with regular expressions across multiple files
Indent unindent comment and uncomment commands with keyboard shortcuts
Up to ten bookmarks set and navigated by mouse or keyboard
Compile source code with the built in compiler or optionally with jikes
Error messages shown in a message window with double click navigation to the error position in source code

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