Use Jansi

Jansi is a small java library that allows you to use ANSI escape sequences to format your console output which works even on windows.

Steps:

1. Download the jansi-1.6.jar

2. Code to test jansi api.

import org.fusesource.jansi.*;

public class Test
{
  public static void main(String []args)
  {
       AnsiConsole.systemInstall();
       Ansi ansi=Ansi.ansi();
        
       System.out.println(ansi.eraseScreen());

       AnsiConsole.out.println(ansi.bg(Ansi.Color.RED) + "Hello");
 }
}

3. Compile and run

>javac -cp .;jansi-1.6.jar Test.java

>java -cp .;jansi-1.6.jar Test

System.out.print("\f");

works for me
there are diffrent commands recognigzed for different versions

shre: this thread hasn't been answred/ followed for almost a year, I think the OP (who asked the question over two years ago) by now has his/her answer or doesn't really care anymore.