Get inside the Java shell, with this hands-on demonstration of building advanced UI consoles and REPLs in Java.

The J# syntax is strikingly similar to Java--it's even identical in many instances. The following code sample contains a simple Java console application for reading the contents of a URL: ...

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

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.

Did you ever wish your Java code could be dynamic like JavaServer Pages? That it could be modified and recompiled at runtime, with your application updating itself on the fly? This article shows ...

Hi All, 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 ...