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You can use a BufferedReader to read a line from the "standard" input stream as follows:

Code:

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(System.in);
String input = reader.readLine();

Alternatively, if you are using Java 6 or above, you can use Console class as follows:

Code:

Console console = System.console();
String username = console.readLine("User: ");