Terminal Utils is a lightweight Java utility designed for interactive terminal applications. It currently provides a flexible and visually appealing console-based progress spinner, which enhances the user experience during long-running tasks.
- Interactive progress spinner for terminal-based applications.
- UTF-8 and DOS-style spinner frame support.
- Thread-safe handling of multiple concurrent tasks.
- Environment-aware behavior (auto-disables when not in an interactive terminal).
- Optionally controlled via the
TTYenvironment variable.
- Java 21+ (uses virtual threads).
- Maven build system.
- Terminal with UTF-8 support (recommended).
To use terminal-utils in your Maven project, include it as a dependency once the library is published to a repository:
<dependency>
<groupId>de.rub.nds</groupId>
<artifactId>terminal-utils</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>