How to reassign standard input stream

Hello, i have a problem where i need to prompt the user to enter data into the console window (1 line) and read from the console. I wrap the System.in in a BufferedReader like this:
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
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while (inputStr != null){
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Now the problem is that if the user hits CTRL + Z (on Windows) the InputStream becomes null.
Further down in the method I need to once again prompt the user to enter data in the Console but this time invoking the bufferedReader.readLine() always returns null (and does not even block).
The JavaDocs say that this method returns null once end of stream has been reached.
I tried re-setting the System.in by calling
System.setIn(System.in);
but that does not give me what I am looking for.
Any ideas on how I can get to read from the console once CTRL+Z has been entered?
Thanks:
-Sam

In the future, Swing related questions should be posted in the Swing forum.
I don't understand the question. You have the code that adds text from an OutputStream to a JTextArea. You must have copied the code from somewhere, so I'm sure whereever you copied the code from would also show you how to use the code.
Otherwise you can search the Swing forum. There are plenty of example showing how to use a JTextArea as a "console".

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