No.

Sometimes you can use a static import to save a class name, but
that is about it.

And you should prioritize readability over typing savings.

If you really insist I believe there are a couple of
Macro preprocessors for Java.

Arne

That's hardly a long line!
How about just using an IDE with auto completion?

You could always write your own class called something short and wrap the
System.out.println call with a method with a short name, hardly seems worth
it though!
public class O
{
   public static p(Object o)
   {
       System.out.println(o);
   }
}
then you can just do:
O.p("I wouldn't recommend this, but if you really feel the need ...");

You can do this but the real question is why.  Speaking of why, why
don't you just create a macro in your editor and make ALT-P (or
something) give you System.out.println()?

import java.io.*;

public class test2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PrintStream x = System.out;
        x.println("hello world");
    }
}

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:05:59 -0800 (PST), Google Man
<googleman04@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

You can use C's macro processor on Java source.

You can use the import static to cut down the verbiage. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/import.html

Smart IDEs such as Intellij Idea have completion.  See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ide.html

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:05:59 -0800 (PST), Google Man
<googleman04@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/macro.html

Most IDEs will let you expand abbreviations. For example you could
configure Eclipse so that when you type 'println' and press Ctrl+Space
it inserts 'System.out.println("");' and positions the cursor between
the quotes.

You could do this for 'cout' but I'd recommend you get into the habit of
thinking in Java rather than thinking in C then translating your
thoughts into Java.

When I type 'main' and press Ctrl+Space, Eclipse offers me a choice of
several named boilerplate chunks of code for Swing or non-Swing apps.

I'm agreeing with all the other posts. I believe you can do something like:

import system.out;

and the you just write:

println("foo");

Test it if you wish.

Thanks for all the answers.  All make sense.
I guess the easiest is to just define a short wrapper as suggested. I
was just getting ticked off when I was doing a sample test with lots
of system.out.println.  Anyway .. as I am learning, I realize that is
going to be the least of my worries.