The example code below helps you to get all month names as an array of String. The first method, getMonths() return the full name string while the second method getShortMonths() return the short name of the month.

package org.kodejava.text;

import java.text.DateFormatSymbols;
import java.util.Locale;

public class MonthNames {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] months = new DateFormatSymbols().getMonths();
        for (String month : months) {
            System.out.println("month = " + month);
        }

        String[] shortMonths = new DateFormatSymbols().getShortMonths();
        for (String shortMonth : shortMonths) {
            System.out.println("shortMonth = " + shortMonth);
        }

        DateFormatSymbols dfs = new DateFormatSymbols(Locale.GERMANY);
        String[] germanyMonths = dfs.getMonths();
        for (String germanyMonth : germanyMonths) {
            System.out.println("germanyMonth = " + germanyMonth);
        }

        String[] germanyShortMonths = dfs.getShortMonths();
        for (String germanyShortMonth : germanyShortMonths) {
            System.out.println("germanyShortMonth = "
                    + germanyShortMonth);
        }
    }
}

The results of the code above are:

month = January
month = February
...
month = December
month = 
shortMonth = Jan
shortMonth = Feb
...
shortMonth = Dec
shortMonth = 
germanyMonth = Januar
germanyMonth = Februar
...
germanyMonth = Dezember
germanyMonth = 
germanyShortMonth = Jan
germanyShortMonth = Feb
...
germanyShortMonth = Dez
germanyShortMonth =