GShell

is

a

framework

for

building

rich

command-line

applications

.

The

core

of

GShell

provides

the

basic

features

needed

by

most

commands

,

such

as

command-line

argument/option

processing,

input/output

redirection,

preferences

handling,

ANSI

support

and

a

whole

lot

more.

Size

matters

when

considering

a

library

or

framework

to

be

used

for

the

building

blocks

of

an

application

and

for

this

reason,

the

core

of

GShell

strives

to

stay

as

small

as

possible,

current

weighing

in

at

around 1.5 megabytes. Of course if you want some of the more fancy bits, like BSF scripting or remote shell support then things get a wee bit fatter obviously. But the beauty of GShell is you can just include the commands you want and omit those you don't, no trouble no fuss, and the framework dependencies can be kept as slim as desired.

GShell can be used to implement applications similar to cvs or svn or can be used as the bootstrap launcher for much more complex applications, like Apache Geronimo.

Features at a Glance

• Dynamic command/plugin discovery
• Rich JLine console for line editing, history, input masking and tab-completion
• Simple annotation-based CLI option/argument processing
• Support for fancy ANSI color muck
• Rich dependency injection and component management via Plexus
• A simple command-line syntax parser with minimal support for quoting ("", '') and for basic ${xxx} expansion
• Branding support to allow application developers to customize the user experience

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Everybody loves screen shots Here are a few of the basic GShell assembly in action...

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