How to provide a CLI for a GUI java swing application

Question

What are the best practices to provide a CLI to an existing GUI java swing application.

For reading text fields I can use console.readLine(); or InputStreamReader(System.in) console.readLine(); or InputStreamReader(System.in) , But my GUI is having radio buttons, checkboxes, comboboxes. So what are the alternatives in CLI for these components of GUI?

My GUI application is a wizard kind of, so I want to develop CLI which have same sequence of steps as GUI wizard. Are there any best practics for writing CLI application?

Is it good to use Console class of java.io ? OR to use sys.out.println() incombination with InputStreamReader(System.in ) for writing and reading to console?

Answer 1

Have you heard of CHARVA? Might not be exactly what you are looking for, but seems promising. http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/index.html