The Console Class is a new feature introduced in
java 6 to get input from our console/keyboard. This Console class comes under
the java.io package The main
advantage of this class is reading passwords from console without displaying
them.
import java.io.Console;
class ConsoleTest{
public static void main(String arg[]){
Console console = System.console();
// retrieves Console object
String userName=console .readLine("User name is : ");
char[] password=console .readPassword("Password is : ");
}
}
Note:
- Using this
readLine() method we can only read line of input given by users. In this Consle
class there are no methods to read an individual numbers or words like as in
Scanner
class(nextInt() method).
- The readPassword()
method returns array of characters due security reasons.
- You can
execute this console class using command prompt not using eclipse.
