Question

I am writing a java program that will run tasks in parallel, which I want to report the status of each task in a table in terminal as it is running. so i would I have something like:

TaskName|StartTime|EndTime

Task1   |12:20    |23:56

Task2   |12:23    |--:--

Task3   |--:--    |--:--

And as each task is kicked off and finished, the table would update in place…
Is there any easy way to do this in Java? I saw some answers about using \r instead of \n (probably hard for multiline purposes), or using Java Curses library (which i cannot find any documentation on).

Any pointer is appreciated!

Answer 1

You can try CHARVA, but it’s a little old (latest release: 09/11/2006). It should do the job though.