Java Fortune Teller

Java Fortune Teller is an efficient and reliable software application that has been ported from the famous BSD game fortune. The program is currently available only via the command line, however, it is still ideal for various e-mail clients like pine, mutt, etc. The application is designed to insert random quotes at the end of an e-mail or display a random quote while a user logs into a UNIX box. Furthermore, it can also display random tips in your program which makes it an advanced application.

The program is written in Java, which makes it a platform-independent software product. It comes with multiple quote files and supports fortune style cookie files. It supports passing various command line options, and more options are being integrated into the software. It is easily integrable into other JAVA programs and has straightforward and easy-to-understand code.

This software application is licensed under GPL, which means you can access the source code and modify it as per your preferences. In order to run this application, one requires a JAVA-supported Operating System, like Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc. The java runtime environment(JRE) is required to run the application, and the java software development kit(SDK) is necessary to compile the project. Both of these can be downloaded from the java homepage.

The latest release of Java Fortune Teller has many new features such as more efficient use of ArrayLists. Also, jfortune assigns probabilities to each file and then prints a quote. Larger files will have a higher probability of having a quote printed from them. Users can tell jfortune to consider all files equally when printing out a quote. The output mechanism is modular, and one method is sent all the output. This method knows if the output is to be returned as a string or printed out on the console (or wherever the user is running it from). Overall, Java Fortune Teller is a great software application for those looking for random quotes or tips.