Java and Macros project

Basically, for a project i'm thinking of making a macro recording application, with a gui. It doesn't have to be brilliant, just basically functional. Are there macro api's for java? Ideally i'd like to use java, its where most of my limited experience lies. If not then what other languages could be recommended?

I'm using linux myself and 开发者_StackOverflowwas alerted to the xMacro terminal app. what id like is the basic record/play of this with a gui. Any ideas?

For capturing actions outside the java application, you will need to use JNI, since Java doesn't supply the appropriate tools to do that. So you should consider doing that in another language.