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  "javaLibraries": [
    {
      "id": "airline",
      "url": "https://github.com/airlift/airline",
      "name": "Airline",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "argot",
      "url": "http://software.clapper.org/argot/",
      "name": "argot",
      "extraInfo": "abandoned - see scopt",
      "language": "scala"
    },
    {
      "id": "argparse4j",
      "url": "https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/argparse4j",
      "name": "argparse4j"
    },
    {
      "id": "argparser",
      "url": "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lloyd/java/argparser.html",
      "name": "argparser",
      "features": {
        "keyvalue": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 24,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "create individual options, where options are \"holders\", parse() into the holders"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "args4j",
      "url": "http://args4j.kohsuke.org/",
      "name": "args4j",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true,
        "shortAndLongNames": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 3,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "field-based, unclear if \"--long-Name\" is supported"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "clajr",
      "url": "http://clajr.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "clajr"
    },
    {
      "id": "cli-parser",
      "url": "http://code.google.com/p/cli-parser/",
      "name": "cli-parser"
    },
    {
      "id": "cmdln",
      "url": "http://ostermiller.org/utils/CmdLn.html",
      "name": "CmdLn",
      "features": {
	"keyvalue": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "commandline",
      "url": "https://github.com/jankroken/commandline",
      "name": "Commandline",
      "features": {
	"annotation": true,
	"shortAndLongNames": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "docopt.java",
      "url": "https://github.com/docopt/docopt.java",
      "name": "DocOpt.java",
      "features": {
	"keyvalue": true,
      },
      "review" : {
	"rank": 80,
	"dateOfReview": "2018-09",
	"notes": "weird String-based approach to defining argument names and help at the same time.  port of docopt."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "dolphin-getopt",
      "url": "http://dolphin.sourceforge.net/getopt/",
      "name": "dolphin getopt"
    },
    {
      "id": "dpml-cli",
      "url": "http://www.dpml.net/util/cli/index.html",
      "name": "DPML CLI",
      "extraInfo": "Jakarta Commons CLI2 fork"
    },
    {
      "id": "dr-matthias-laux",
      "url": "http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2004/jw-0816-command.html",
      "name": "Dr. Matthias Laux"
    },
    {
      "id": "jakarta-commons-cli",
      "url": "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/",
      "name": "Jakarta Commons CLI",
      "features": {
        "keyvalue": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 22,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "like JArgs, except key is \"String\", not an Option object"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jargo",
      "url": "https://github.com/Softhouse/jargo",
      "name": "jargo",
      "features": {
	"keyvalue": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "JArgp",
      "url": "http://jargp.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "jargp"
    },
    {
      "id": "jargs",
      "url": "http://jargs.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "JArgs",
      "features": {
        "keyvalue": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 21,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "single \"parse\" call with array of options, key is an Option object"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "java-getopt",
      "url": "http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/download.html",
      "name": "java-getopt"
    },
    {
      "id": "jbock",
      "url": "https://github.com/h908714124/jbock",
      "name": "jbock",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jclap",
      "url": "http://www.snaq.net/java/JCLAP/",
      "name": "JCLAP"
    },
    {
      "id": "jcmdline",
      "url": "http://jcmdline.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "jcmdline"
    },
    {
      "id": "jcommander",
      "url": "http://jcommander.org/",
      "name": "JCommander",
      "version": "v1.71",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true,
        "shortAndLongNames": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 1,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "good documentation, custom parser, validation"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jcommando",
      "url": "http://jcommando.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "JCommando",
      "review": {
        "rank": 26,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "generates .java, but still requires an additional .jar"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jewelcli",
      "url": "http://jewelcli.lexicalscope.com/",
      "name": "JewelCLI",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true,
        "shortAndLongNames": true,
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 4,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "shortAndLongNames": true,
        "notes": "interface-based but can be instance-based with setters"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jopt-simple",
      "url": "http://jopt-simple.sourceforge.net",
      "name": "JOpt simple",
      "features": {
        "keyvalue": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 10,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": ""
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "jsap",
      "url": "http://www.martiansoftware.com/jsap/",
      "name": "JSAP",
      "features": {
        "keyvalue": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 25,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "old (2008) not well documented"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "naturalcli",
      "url": "http://naturalcli.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "naturalcli"
    },
    {
      "id": "object-mentor-cli",
      "url": "http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/Clean_Code_Args.pdf",
      "urlIsDead" : "true",
      "name": "Object Mentor CLI article",
      "junk": " (more about refactoring and TDD)"
    },
    {
      "id": "optional",
      "url": "https://github.com/alexy/optional",
      "name": "optional",
      "language": "scala",
      "extraInfo": "multiple github forks"
    },
    {
      "id": "parse-cmd",
      "url": "http://code.google.com/p/parse-cmd/",
      "name": "parse-cmd"
    },
    {
      "id": "picocli",
      "url": "http://picocli.info",
      "name": "picocli",
      "version": "v3.3",
      "features": {
        "annotation": true,
        "shortAndLongNames": true
      },
      "review": {
        "rank": 2,
        "dateOfReview": "2018-07",
        "notes": "good documentation - documentation looks suspiciously like it is patterned after JCommander"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ritopt",
      "url": "http://ritopt.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "ritopt"
    },
    {
      "id": "rop",
      "url": "http://ryenus.github.io/rop/",
      "name": "Rop"
    },
    {
      "id": "scopt",
      "url": "https://github.com/jstrachan/scopt",
      "name": "scopt",
      "language": "scala"
    },
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      "id": "te-code-command",
      "url": "http://te-code.sourceforge.net/",
      "name": "TE-Code Command"
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