RFR: Options rework

[Mike Duigou]

On Aug 28 2013, at 03:20 , Aleksey Shipilev wrote:

> On 08/28/2013 01:49 PM, Sergey Kuksenko wrote:
>> Reviewed! Accepted the changeset.
> 
> Thank you. I will push shortly.
> 
>> I strongly vote for killing arg4j dependency in the future (hard to 
>> maintain).
> 
> With this change, the ties to args4j are superficial enough to consider
> this. However, it "just works" now :)

You may want to consider joptsimple [1] which is used elsewhere in the JDK. Referenced this morning in [2]. The NetBeans options parser mentioned in [3] might also be practical.

[1] http://pholser.github.io/jopt-simple/
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2013-August/003335.html
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2013-August/003333.html

Mike