Capture keystrokes without GUI

I am trying to write a program that will listen for keystrokes without a (visible) GUI. So sort of like a hotkey. There has to be a way to do this in Java. Since I was desperate, I looked into the Component source code to see how it reads input from the keyboard but couldn't find anything.
I've searched for a solution to this program for hours and whenever I find someone asking the same thing, it is never answered. Please help

hi its me again... i dont know if you have solved your dilema but i think mine has finally been answered just when i was about to give up... i have found a way to listen globally to mouse movements by comparying the last postion of the mouse and the current position..... more info at http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=574086&messageID=2929889.........
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