Jshell

jShell is a Java REPL planned to be introduced in the JDK 9. It is tracked by JEP 222: jshell: The Java Shell (Read-Eval-Print Loop).

One of the reasons jShell was proposed for Java 9 is that a lot of applications use their own mechanisms to interactively evaluate expressions, and the de facto library to use a Java REPL was often BeanShell, which is a dormant project since 2003, and which made arbitrary changes to the Java language.