Native password mask symbol in Java

Ho to get system native password mask symbol in Java? It can be star in old Windows, big 开发者_Go百科circle in new Windows, some other symbol in Linux and mac.

Update: swing solution is required

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In AWT:

  TextField password = new TextField(8);
  password.getEchoChar();

In Swing:

 JPasswordField jpf = new JPasswordField();
 jpf.getEchoChar();

In the console, it is a bit tricky to set (check http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Security/pwordmask/). To get, maybe playing with Console.writer().

Anyway, why on earth would you want to get that echo char?