Thanks David and Kevin, I tried System.console() in the code. The mystery is it could work in clojure repl, but System.console() will return null if I put everything into jar package. Per the spec, system.console could return null. I don't quite understand why the two cases are different.
Best regards, -stanley On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:16 PM, David Powell <djpow...@djpowell.net> wrote: > > If you have Java 6 (and you probably do), then look at: > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Console.html<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/Console.html#readPassword%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object...%29> > > Simple example: > > (String/valueOf (.readPassword (System/console) "Password:" nil)) > > -- > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en