Clad

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Overview

Command-Line Application Development (clad) is a collection of Java classes providing functionality that can be used to build command line tools. It includes support for:

• command-oriented CLI
• command-line and YAML-based persistent configuration
• hierarchical in-line help
• logging and error message handling support
• version and release date mechanism
• standard release tools

The project's artifact is a java library other dependent project can get from a Maven repository:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.novaordis.clad</groupId>
    <artifactId>novaordis-clad</artifactId>
    <version>1</version>
</dependency>

GitHub

https://github.com/NovaOrdis/clad

TODO

doc/cliff.docx TODO section.

Features

• __Version and Release Date__ The framework supports the "version" command by default. The "version" command pulls version and release date from the underlying application and displays it in a standard format:

version 1.0
release date 01/26/16