What is Bluej?

What is BlueJ?

BlueJ is a Java integrated development environment which was solely designed for educational purposes and for small-scale software development to some extent. It is an IDE or Integrated development environment for doing JAVA programming. BlueJ was started by Michael Kolling and John Rosenberg in 1999 at Monash University, Australia. Presently this software was maintained by a team at King's College London, England, where Kolling works. A JDK( or the Java development kit) is required to run BlueJ. By the way, a JDK(or a Java Development kit) is a software development environment by which applets and JAVA applications can be developed.



Some noteworthy features of BlueJ
1) BlueJ is a very simple software with a very simpler interface. Beginners can use it very easily.
2) BlueJ is portable. We can use BlueJ in any operating systems that uses JAVA.
3) In case of compilation and execution time, BlueJ is much faster than classical JAVA.
4)We can share programs and view them from any non- BlueJ environment.
5) BlueJ is much more advanced and innovative than any other IDE's ( or Integrated Development Environment). It possess features like object bench, code pad and scope coloring.
6) It is very user friendly. To help users, a sample program always appears on the screen  as soon as the user defines a class.