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Everything you do with JSAP leads to the same
goal: a JSAPResult object that contains objects
created from the parsed command line. Getting to this point requires the
following steps:
This is generally accomplished through JSAP's
no-argument constructor. Depending upon the complexity of your program,
however, you may want to instantiate a custom JSAP
subclass that also takes care of steps 2 and 3 (described below) during
the construction process. This approach results in a much
"cleaner" main class. Another helpful class is
SimpleJSAP, which provides on-the-fly declaration
of program name, description, and parameters.
If you have a complicated command line configuration, create
your own subclass of JSAP and override its
constructor so it can initialize itself. This keeps your main class
uncluttered.
As of version 2.0, there is an experimental mechanism to load a fully configured JSAP from a simple XML file. See this section for details.