README.md

dev-container-java

An opinionated dev container for Java and VS Code

Prerequisites

To make best use of this repository, you need the following:

• Visual Studio Code
• VS Code extension "Remote Development"
• Docker Desktop (MacOS, Windows) or docker engine (Linux)
• git client (https://git-scm.com/downloads)

Getting Started

Once you have the container running, open a terminal inside VS Code and execute the following sequence of commands:

cd /src
javac HelloWorld.java
java HelloWorld

All going to plan, this will output "Hello, world!" in the console.