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() ...

Writing code to parse command line arguments is still necessary sometimes. When you need to examine command line arguments, see how and why you should use your open source Java toolkit and use Command ...

I find myself needing to write a Java console application and am quite rusty. Can anyone recommend a good analogue to Python's optparse library (or comment on the Apache Commons CLI)? Also, this is ...

(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 ...

Watch the tutorial's companion video here! Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an ...