word (password) displays in asterisks - Console application

Question

I am trying to write a program which will allow two players to play \"a guess word\" game as part of my learning curve in Java. When prompted, player 1 types in a word but t

Answer 1

The intuition that you should intercept input, save original data, and show it masked in the console. You can achieve that by separate thread working on it.

Use this reference http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/pwordmask/

Magic happens in EraserThread class.