It sounds like Commons Configuration would help as well. Gary
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019, 20:34 Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com wrote: > I’m under the impression that Commons-CLI is not under active development > any more (anyone on the list, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). > > I would recommend that you take a look at picocli ( > https://github.com/remkop/picocli). Disclosure: I’m the author.) > > Picocli has a pluggable default provider ( > https://picocli.info/#_default_provider), so it should be fairly > straightforward to implement what you describe. > > It also has other nice features that you might be interested in, like > usage help with ANSI colors, autocompletion, support for subcommands and > much more. > > Please take a look. > Happy to help if any issues pop up. > > Remko. > > (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info > > > On Feb 10, 2019, at 10:05, Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > of course, the properties file would be the one describing the data, > > even if the command line arguments would take precedence > > > > lbrtchx > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > >