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Many thanks both of you, very interesting hints!
In particular the BeanShell approach seems promising. Another question 
that arises is if somebody tries to mimic an operating system prompt in 
a JConsole, could you possibly redirect system console output of other 
programs (e.g. service commands) into the Java application that runs the 
JConsole?


John McGrath [TeamB] wrote:

>On 3/16/2005 at 4:22:12 AM, Vander wrote:
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>>Perhaps a bit off the swing topic, but I wonder if it is possible to
>>obtain direct keyboard character/signal input from the console.
>>System.in only reads lines of text and echoes all characters. For a
>>commandline utility I need to perform password input, so to echo only
>>"*" instead of the text. - Can somebody know a solution or can give me
>>directions? Thanks!
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>There is nothing in Java that allows this level of control over console
>input.  To do this with console input, you would need to use some sort of
>native library.  An alternative approach would be to use a GUI console
>window, such as the JConsole class that comes with BeanShell:
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>   http://www.beanshell.org/
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