Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The easiest way to garner user input in a Java program is to use the System’s Console class.

Java 25 LTS is officially here, and with it comes a massive update to IntelliJ IDEA. The new version is all about making the ...

While we’re on the subject of improving Firefox performance (see yesterday’s post on clearing the Downloads list), let’s talk about old, outdated Java Consoles. Java, of course, is the programming ...

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. In ...

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 ...