BlueJ Portable is specially designed as a Java environment that features a built-in editor, compiler, virtual machine, debugger that is created for introductory teaching.
The aim of BlueJ is to provide an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language that facilitates the teaching of Java to first year students.
Special emphasis has been placed on visualization and interaction techniques to create a highly interactive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration.
The standalone version of the software can be found here.
What's New in This Release:
· Interface language is now selectable from preferences dialog. Improvements to the display of values and exceptions in the codepad.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed: Error when first creating class documentation on a project on a network share
· Fixed: Incremental parsing bug (scope highlighting while editing)
· Fixed: Debugger: If halted while reading from System.in, call stack is truncated
· Fixed: Debugger: thread controls not enabled correctly for main thread
· Fixed: Mishandling of ArrayList in codepad/object bench
· Fixed: JUnit 4 support treats failures as errors
· Fixed: JUnit 4 tests do not have their stack trace filtered correctly
· Fixed: Dialog hangs with generic array parameter
· Fixed: Disabling auto-indent glitches the closing bracket '}'
· Fixed: Auto-indent doesn't fire after entering '{' at line beginning
· Fixed: Interactive invocation: Javadoc not shown for methods with parameters of a nested parameterized type