Airline vs JCommander

Airline

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

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JCommander

Command line parsing framework for Java (by cbeust)

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Airline		JCommander
	Project
-	Mentions	-
848	Stars	1,924
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.7
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

JCommander

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Airline and JCommander 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.

Spring Shell 3 - Spring based shell

args4j - args4j

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

JOpt Simple - Java library for parsing command line options

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