Keyboard I/O
For the first nine years of its life, Java did not have any routines to do console input. The official spin from Sun was that you were supposed to use a GUI for interactive I/O. If you wanted to get input from the command line, you had to roll your own support using several classes. It was ugly, and it needlessly gave a bad impression of Java to generations of student programmers. Most teachers gave their students a class to do console I/O, and only taught the API support much later.
The JDK 1.5 release introduces a simple text scanner that can be used to read input. There is also a new method that provides a feature essentially ...
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