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 ...

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.

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 ...