Jodd is an open-source java library with lot of reusable components and feature rich utilities.
This requires the library jodd-3.3.2.jar to be in classpath.
The following example shows how to use ClipboardUtil.getStringFromClipboard() API.
It gets the string copied to system clipboard.
/**
* @param args
*/ public static void main(String[] args) {
//Copy the text to system clipboard using Ctrl+C or other mechanism
//Now you can read the copied text using the following method
String str = ClipboardUtil.getStringFromClipboard();
System.out.println(str);
}