[BAEL-6602] Copying text to clipboard in Java (#18656)

Author: haidar47x

core-java-modules/core-java-swing/pom.xml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>core-java-swing</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
@@ -19,4 +19,8 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     </properties>
 
+    <build>
+        <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
+    </build>
+
 </project>

core-java-modules/core-java-swing/src/main/java/com/baeldung/clipboard/AwtClipboard.java

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+package com.baeldung.clipboard;
+
+import java.awt.Toolkit;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.StringSelection;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
+
+public class AwtClipboard {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, UnsupportedFlavorException {
+        String textToCopy = "Baeldung helps developers explore the Java ecosystem and simply be better engineers.";
+        copyToClipboard(textToCopy);
+
+        String textCopied = copyFromClipboard();
+        if (textCopied != null) {
+            System.out.println(textCopied);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void copyToClipboard(String text) {
+        Clipboard cb = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
+        StringSelection data = new StringSelection(text);
+        cb.setContents(data, null);
+    }
+
+    public static String copyFromClipboard() throws UnsupportedFlavorException, IOException {
+        Clipboard cb = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
+        Transferable transferable = cb.getContents(null);
+        if (transferable.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.stringFlavor)) {
+            String data = (String) transferable.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
+            return data;
+        }
+        System.out.println("Couldn't get data from the clipboard");
+        return null;
+    }
+}