How to hide input in Java GUI

Question

This question, Masking password input from the console : Java, addresses using the Console class to hide input as asterisks. How can this be done in a Swing GUI, where input is entered into a JTextArea, rather than the console?

Answer 1

You can Use this Swing component instead.

JPasswordField

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JPasswordField.html