Libraries for constructing an interactive shell for Java application [closed]

Answer 1

Options to consider:

• javacurses / JCurses - a console-based windowing toolkit, similar to the UNIX curses design
• swing-console might be appropriate if you want a console-style view / output in a Swing GUI window. you could use this to build an interactive shell.
• JLine - library for console input similar to GNU readline
• Several JVM languages offer an interactive REPL environment which can be used as an interactive shell, e.g. Clojure