I've been dragging through a lot of console-based Java applications, and the perfectionist in me has got a couple of questions:<br><br>1) Keyboard I/O - does any standard way of parsing console I/O ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...

Two of the most widely used Java application servers today are Apache Tomcat and Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Both servers can handle development and production, but how do you ...

I find myself needing to write a Java console application and am quite rusty. Can anyone recommend a good analogue to Python's optparse library (or comment on the Apache Commons CLI)? Also, this is ...

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 except ...