Thought Spearmints

Moving this blog to GitHub Pages

I'm moving this blog over to http://pholser.github.io/ -- perhaps I'll be more inclined to post.

JOpt Simple 4.5 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

This release incorporates a couple of smaller features.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.4 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

This release incorporates a number of smaller features and bug fixes, many of which were originated by users.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.4 beta 2 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

This release incorporates a number of smaller features and bug fixes, many of which were originated by users.

Please disregard 4.4 beta 1 -- I made a mistake while building and tagging it, and rather than try to undo a Git tag, I figured I'd just cut 4.4 beta 2 instead.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.3 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

This release incorporates a small API change to produce a list of OptionSpecs that correspond to the options detected on a parse, in the order in which the options occurred on the command line.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.2 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

This release incorporates a small API change to allow compile-time arrays as the supplier of default values for an argument-accepting option, as well as removing some internal unused methods and classes.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.1 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

I'm pleased to have received community contributions since moving the project to GitHub. This release incorporates some of those contributions. Of note is the ability to have short options that accept arguments in a cluster. If such an option occurs in a cluster, the remaining parts of the cluster, if any, are taken to be the argument to the option.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.0 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here.

I'm pleased to have received community contributions since moving the project to GitHub. This release incorporates some of those contributions.

Happy parsing!

JOpt Simple 4.0-beta1 released

JOpt Simple is my Java library for parsing command line options. You can find the changes in this latest release here. Happy parsing!

Property Binder has company

One of the things about JOpt Simple about which I feel most proud is the fact that I advertise alternatives to it on the project's website. I realize that choices abound for command line option parsing in Java; before you choose JOpt Simple, I'd like you to see the other choices and come back to JOpt Simple for its approachability, dedication to traditional Unix option syntaxes, and thorough tests.

I've decided to advertise alternatives to Property Binder on its site as well. In 2009, I took inspiration from a blog post to hammer out the beginnings of Property Binder for an article. Not long afterward (Aug 2009), I moved the project to GitHub; as of this writing, it sits at version 3.1. Since I started Property Binder, other alternatives have arisen.

If a facility for binding sources of Java application configuration to instances of an interface interests you, check out Property Binder's page and from there also check out the alternatives to Property Binder of which I'm aware. I hope you'll choose Property Binder!