KeyListener for a command line application

Hi, I'm currently writing a small command line application aimed at interacting with a database. I would like to implement features such as an automatic completion of the names with the TAB key. My problem is that the objects that sends KeyEvent are AWT components, and they do that when they have the focus. So I was wondering if any of you had already done such a thing. Until now, I tried lots of things, but there is no way I can catch a KeyEvent within the command line...
Souk

Write your own input routine that internally reads a character at a time instead of a complete line or string and test the character for tab etc. and take the appropriate action. This also means you will have to/can implement editing keys.
If there is a Java class that has an dictionary to compare input with I do not know, because the last time I wrote a tool without gui was in 1985.
Regards
SH

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psychomania wrote:
This has been posted a few times recently for other models and I think someone posted a link to a useful app that works.
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