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.

The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...

I'm writing a Java "wrapper" GUI for a CLI app that gets used pretty heavily. The CLI app is very robust and is a very good standalone program, but some people would like drag/drop functionality and ...