How do I parse command line arguments in Java?

Question

What is a good way of parsing command line arguments in Java?

Answer 1

I have been trying to maintain a list of Java CLI parsers.

• Airline
  • Active Fork: https://github.com/rvesse/airline
• argparse4j
• argparser
• args4j
• clajr
• cli-parser
• CmdLn
• Commandline
• DocOpt.java
• dolphin getopt
• DPML CLI (Jakarta Commons CLI2 fork)
• Dr. Matthias Laux
• Jakarta Commons CLI
• jargo
• jargp
• jargs
• java-getopt
• jbock
• JCLAP
• jcmdline
• jcommander
• jcommando
• jewelcli (written by me)
• JOpt simple
• jsap
• naturalcli
• Object Mentor CLI article (more about refactoring and TDD)
• parse-cmd
• ritopt
• Rop
• TE-Code Command
• picocli has ANSI colorized usage help and autocomplete