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.

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(). It ...

In Java, programs often need to interact with users by accepting input from them. This is where the Scanner class comes in handy. Imagine you're at a grocery store checkout, and the cashier asks for ...

Input4j is a cutting-edge, pure Java input library leveraging the Foreign Function & Memory API (FFM API), offering cross-platform support, high performance, flexible controller and gamepad input ...