Make the console wait for a user input to close

Question

I have a console application that after performing its tasks, must give feedback to the user, such as \"operation completed\" or \"operation failed\" and the detailed error.

Answer 1

I've put in what x4u said. Eclipse wanted a try catch block around it so I let it generate it for me.

try {
        System.in.read();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

It can probably have all sorts of bells and whistles on it but I think for beginners that want a command line window not quitting this should be fine.

Also I don't know how common this is (this is my first time making jar files), but it wouldn't run by itself, only via a bat file.

java.exe -jar mylibrary.jar

The above is what the bat file had in the same folder. Seems to be an install issue.

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Some of the answer also came from: Oracle Thread