Java CLI UI-design: frameworks or libraries? [closed]

Answer 1

Try searching for CURSES and java, something like http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=curses+for+java . Long time ago CHARVA ( http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/index.html ) looked nice.

Answer 2

There is a project called JLine that provides cross-platform support for general command-line input handling:

http://jline.sourceforge.net/

More of a support library than a framework though.

Answer 3

You can also have a look and Clamshell-cli or spring shell:

• Clamshell-cli is relatively simple and easy to use : You can look at jmx-cli to get a nice example of what can be done with it.

• Spring Shell is bigger but more feature-full (tab completion, etc). It has been extracted from spring Roo and released as an independent framework

Answer 4

I've used the apache commons CLI library in the past and has worked well for me: http://commons.apache.org/cli/

Answer 5

Perhaps CLI Toolkit...

http://alexis.royer.free.fr/CLI/