# Processing 4 processing-java binary?

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**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [November 5, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-processing-java-binary/47498 "2025-11-05T19:04:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-processing-java-binary/47498/3 "2025-11-05T19:47:40Z")

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Hi @SNitaine! We’ve been hard at work trying to decouple Processing core from the editor and make everything a bit more modular. As of now that work is not yet ready though!

So far we have the following:

We have `core` [published to maven central](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.processing/core) as a standard Java library.

We have the [Visual Studio Code plugin](http://vscode.processing.org)

As for distributing `processing-java` as a standalone, if you look under the hood of that binary you will see that is just a wrapper around running the PDE binary with some extra arguments, so a decoupling is unlikely there.

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