In prior Java 101 articles, I referred to the concepts of redirection, standard input device, and standard output device. To demonstrate inputting data, several examples called System.in.read ...

The easiest way to garner input from the user in a Java program is through the Console class. But Java’s Console class has two big disadvantages: It does not work in IDEs like Eclipse. It can only ...

Introduced in Java 6, Java’s System Console class provides two simple methods to obtain user input: readLine() readPassword() Java user input with readLine. The readLine() method takes user input ...