The easiest way to garner user input in a Java program is to use the System’s Console class. Introduced in Java 6, Java’s System Console class provides two simple methods to obtain user input: The ...

Every time you do so, Firefox inherits a new version of the Java Console (a debugging tool that’s useless to the vast majority of users). Unfortunately, the old ones don’t get deleted.

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.

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.

However, escape sequences are not very portable. For example, Windows NT provides an ANSI.SYS driver, but only for legacy DOS applications (which a JVM is not). I do not recommend this option ...