hg: jigsaw/jake/jdk: jdk.joptsimple

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/8/28 11:59 -0700, jaroslav.tulach at oracle.com:
> Seems the kind of utility everyone has to write once from scratch, right? I
> did it as well as it seemed no existing parser matches our needs.

Yes.  We didn't write joptsimple; it was written by Paul Holser [1].
It's not perfect, but it's better than all the others I surveyed a
couple of years ago.

> NetBeans offers standalone, modular, ServiceLoader based, declarative, POSIX 
> complient approach for parsing command line arguments in a single JAR API:  ...

I didn't know this -- thanks for pointing it out.  I'll take a look.

- Mark


[1] http://pholser.github.io/jopt-simple/