[mkgmap-dev] complete list of all mkgmap options

Tue Aug 4 12:38:19 BST 2009

Yep that framework takes a pretty similar approach to ours. We'd actually 
evaluated that (and about 10 others) before deciding to roll our own due 
to various requirements we had that no frameworks were able to provide but 
you're probably right, something like JCLI would be a good match for mkgmap. 
JewelCLI (http://jewelcli.sourceforge.net/) and Args4J (https://args4j.dev.java.net/) 
are a couple of others that take this approach. I'd recommend steering clear 
of the various alternatives that aren't annotation-based; I don't think we 
managed to find any that worked particularly well or had clean syntax with 
minimal lines of code required to use them. This was a year or so ago though, 
perhaps that has changed.

FWIW, JOpt has a list of some of the more well known CLI parsers: http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net/

Chris

> Sounds good to me!
> 
> Maybe there is an open source  framework we could use:
> http://www.cyclopsgroup.org/projects/jcli/
> 
> Best wishes
> Christian