Airline vs args4j

Airline

Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures (by airlift)

Command-line Argument Parsers

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args4j

args4j (by kohsuke)

Command-line Argument Parsers

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args4j.kohsuke.org

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Airline		args4j
	Project
-	Mentions	-
848	Stars	782
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.9
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Airline

Posts with mentions or reviews of Airline. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Airline yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

args4j

Posts with mentions or reviews of args4j. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning args4j yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Airline and args4j you can also consider the following projects:

picocli - Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

JCommander - Command line parsing framework for Java

Spring Shell 3 - Spring based shell

JOpt Simple - Java library for parsing command line options

JLine - JLine is a Java library for handling console input.

JewelCLI - JewelCli uses an annotated interface definition to automatically parse and present command line arguments