In Stata 17, you can now embed and execute Java code directly in Stata. You could already create and use Java plugins in previous versions of Stata, but that required you to compile your code and bundle it in a Jar file. Executing Java in a do-file would give you the freedom to execute Java code tied directly to your Stata code. Now you can write your Java code in do-files or ado-files, or even invoke Java interactively (like JShell) from within Stata.
One of Java's strengths is in its extensive APIs that are packaged with the Java virtual machine. There are also many useful third-party libraries available. Depending on what you need to do, you may even be able to write parallelized code to take advantage of multiple cores.
The Java code you write compiles on the fly—there is no need to use an external compiler! Additionally, the
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