Here's a complete program that reads in an integer, stores it in variable i, and then prints it out again.
// EchoInt: program to read and print one integer. import java.io.*; public class EchoInt { public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (System.in)); System.out.println ("Enter an integer: "); String line = in.readLine(); int i = Integer.parseInt(line); System.out.println("You entered " + i); } }