BlueJ --- An interactive Java Development Environment


BlueJ is an interactive java environment developed at Monash University in Australia specifically for beginning students of java. BlueJ emphasizes object-orientation and comes with examples and a tutorial. Try it out by typing "bluej" in any shell window. Both the left and the right mouse buttons are useful in BlueJ, try right-clicking on a class for more properties. BlueJ is installed on all the departmental Linux machines.

Note: When you open a project in bluej, you will see several examples which you can view. If you want to alter or compile them, you'll need to copy them to your home directory first by typing cp -a /usr/java/jdk1.3/bin/bluej/examples ~

For more info, go to the BlueJ home page.


  • Tutorial
  • Manual