Java: Is there a way to take a screenshot using java and save it to some sort of image?

Simple as the title states: Can you use only Java commands to take a screenshot and save it? Or, do I need to use an OS specific program to take the screenshot and then grab it off the clipboard?

From stackoverflow jjnguy

• http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/save-screenshot.html

  jjnguy : The reason I didn't accept your answer was because it was someone elses code.
  From John Millikin

• Believe it or not, you can actually use java.awt.Robot to "create an image containing pixels read from the screen." You can then write that image to a file on disk.

  I just tried it, and the whole thing ends up like:

  Rectangle screenRect = new Rectangle(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize());
  BufferedImage capture = new Robot().createScreenCapture(screenRect);
  ImageIO.write(capture, "bmp", new File(args[0]));
  

  NOTE: This will only capture the primary monitor. See GraphicsConfiguration for multi-monitor support.

  Michael Neale : Wow - who would have thought. That is very very cool.

  Free Wildebeest : I'd never come across java.awt.Robot. That's one impressive and useful class.

  Flash84x : I wonder if this is what screen sharing applications like Elluminate (http://www.elluminate.com/) use.
  From David Citron