In Java there is a easy was to capture screenshots. The following captureScreenshot method will capture a screenshot of the display of your screen and save it to the disk. public void captureScreenshot(String filename) throws Exception { java.awt.Dimension size = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize(); java.awt.Rectangle rectangle = new java.awt.Rectangle(size); java.awt.Robot robot = new java.awt.Robot(); java.awt.image.BufferedImage image = robot.createScreenCapture(rectangle); ..