picocli VS JewelCLI

Compare picocli vs JewelCLI and see what are their differences.

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. (by remkop)

JewelCLI

JewelCli uses an annotated interface definition to automatically parse and present command line arguments (by lexicalscope)
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picocli JewelCLI
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4,705 60
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8.6 0.0
8 days ago about 10 years ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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picocli

Posts with mentions or reviews of picocli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-19.

JewelCLI

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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing picocli and JewelCLI you can also consider the following projects:

Spring Shell 3 - Spring based shell

JCommander - Command line parsing framework for Java

args4j - args4j

JOpt Simple - Java library for parsing command line options

Airline - Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures

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

kotlinx-cli - Pure Kotlin implementation of a generic CLI parser.