What is the best way of parsing many complex command-line arguments in Java?

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I have used getopt in Python and was hoping there would be something similar in Java.

Please give a reason why your answer is better than the others.

possible duplicate of [Is there a good command line argument parser for Java?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/367706/is-there-a-good-command-line-argument-parser-for-java) — Thilo, Jul 07 '11 at 04:15

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '08 at 09:28

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answered Oct 16 '08 at 09:28

C. K. Young

I like this one so far as it was quite easy to get up and running with a simple download. The 50 line demo is all I needed to get started, and I easily found that I could parse POSIX-style or GNU-style. – Liam Oct 16 '08 at 11:00
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this is a horrible answer, Java Simple Argument Parse (JSAP) is a much better library. This is a hideous library and is really deprecated. – Jan 05 '10 at 22:15
So, how is JSAP better than Commons CLI? The only differences I see are: 1. Extensible type handlers (Commons CLI plans to make them extensible, but currently only a fixed set is supported), 2. ability to default values from configuration files. – C. K. Young Jan 05 '10 at 22:20

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '08 at 09:36

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I use Jewelcli and it's quite good.

You can also find a discussion of different available libraries here.

answered Oct 16 '08 at 09:36

bernardn

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 13 '09 at 18:31

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Look at Java Simple Argument Parser. Very mature and feature complete argument parser for Java. JSAP

answered Oct 13 '09 at 18:31

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 02 '11 at 19:11

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https://github.com/kohsuke/args4j -- has pretty good features PLUS MIT license

edited Nov 02 '11 at 19:11

Chadwick

answered Oct 16 '08 at 09:56

anjanb

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