As an active research project at Rice University, DrJava has had several papers, posters, and presentations describing its goals and effectiveness.

• Papers
  
  • DrJava: A lightweight pedagogic environment for Java
  • A Framework for Building Pedagogic Java Programming Environments
  • Production Programming in the Classroom
  • A Pedagogic Programming Environment for Java that Scales to Production Programming
  • Taming a Professional IDE for the Classroom
  • Design Patterns For Marine Biology Simulation
  • Taming Java for the Classroom
  • Design Patterns for Parsing
• Posters
  
  • rice-poster-2001.pdf
    DrJava: A Better Java Development Environment
    Presented by Brian Stoler at Rice University, Fall 2001
  • rice-poster-2002.pdf
    Teaching Programming with DrJava
    Presented by Charles Reis at Rice University, Fall 2002
• Presentations
  
  • sigcse-presentation-2002.ppt
    Presented by Brian Stoler at SIGCSE 2002
  • sigcse-presentation-2003.ppt
    Presented by Charles Reis at SIGCSE 2003
  • sigcse-mbs-2004.ppt
    Presented by Dung "Zung" Nguyen, Mathias Ricken, and Stephen Wong at SIGCSE 2004
  • TeachJava 2004 Marine Biology Simulation Presentation
    • Introduction
    • Assignment, Part 1
    • Assignment, Part 2
    Presented by Mathias Ricken at TeachJava 2004
  • oopsla-mbs-2004.ppt
    Presented by Eric Cheng, Dung "Zung" Nguyen, Mathias Ricken, and Stephen Wong at the OOPSLA 2005 Educators' Symposium