You can lay out a new project using the code in Listing 1. mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.infoworld -DartifactId=java ... console. From here on, we’ll use this command to run the application.

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.