What is the development environment?

The development environment is a set of tools installed on your computer that allows you to write Java programs (applications) and tests for them, to share the source code with your colleagues, and to compile the source and run it. We will discuss each of the development tools and stages of the development process in this chapter.

Java editor is your main tool

A Java-supporting editor is the center of a development environment. In principle, you can use any text editor to write a program and store it in a .java file. Unfortunately, a regular text editor does not warn you about Java language syntax errors. That is why a specialized editor that supports Java is a better choice for writing...