In this article, we’ll take a tour of building sophisticated interactive command-line interface (CLI) applications and REPLs (read–eval–print loops, or interactive shells) in Java.

In addition to comprehensive monitoring and application management support offered by J2SE 5.0, JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole.

You can use it to create standalone Java apps as well. RESTful APIs get all the attention, but sometimes, you just need to auto wire a few JavaBeans into a simple Spring Boot console app. How to ...

How do you find out what is happening to a running Java application? You can find Notepad.jar in $JAVA_HOME/demo/jfc/Notepad. Once the Notepad application has started ...