Jansi is an excellent workaround. I am an amateur coder and Jansi is easy to setup especially with Eclipse.
The following is a link to the homepage of Jansi:
http://jansi.fusesource.org/
The following is a link to a site containing a code as a demonstration of AnsiConsole class contained in the Jansi package:
http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0047.html
