Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static main() ...

Does anybody know of an elegant implementation of a command-line parser written in Java? The one I'm using (JavaPopt can't match multiple arguments with the same flag (e.g. -I/home/yak/foo -I/home/yak ...

In the world of IDE-based development, programmers can easily become detached from JDK and the underlying technology that makes their applications work. Here is a list of the five most useful Java ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...