JCommander

This is an annotation based parameter parsing framework for Java.

Here is a quick example:

public class JCommanderTest {
  @Parameter
  public List<String> parameters = Lists.newArrayList();

  @Parameter(names = { "-log", "-verbose" }, description = "Level of verbosity")
  public Integer verbose = 1;

  @Parameter(names = "-groups", description = "Comma-separated list of group names to be run")
  public String groups;

  @Parameter(names = "-debug", description = "Debug mode")
  public boolean debug = false;
}

and how you use it:

JCommanderTest jct = new JCommanderTest();
String[] argv = { "-log", "2", "-groups", "unit", "a", "b", "c" };
new JCommander(jct, argv);

Assert.assertEquals(jct.verbose.intValue(), 2);

The full doc is available at http://beust.com/jcommander