Read key from console without blocking?

Question

I have a console application (a server) that needs to run in a loop till the user stops it (currently with Ctrl-C (ugh!)).
How can I check to see if a key has been pressed (Enter is fine), and if not, just continue? I don't want to wait for a keypress, as System.in.read() does.
The only thing I can think of is to put System.in.read() inside another Thread.
There must be a standard way to solve this problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Try thispublic class Test {
    public static void main( String args[] ) {
     int cnt=0;
     while (cnt<20) {
         try {
          if (System.in.available()>0) {
              System.out.println("AV="+System.in.available());
              while(System.in.available()>0) System.in.read();
          Thread.sleep(1000);
         } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
         cnt++;
}And the answer is, "There is no way to read single characters"