centipede

Command line Java applications without the pain.

Java gets short shrift for writing small command line applications because the language has a large amount of overhead involved in writing command line applications.

When this overhead is addressed, Java becomes more competitive with Python and other languages as a language for data science and batch processing. The goal of centipede is to make the creation of command-line applications in Java that support Maven, Spring, Log4J a single step operation, and ensuring that simple answers are in place for the software engineering questions that are often unanswered in data science projects, such as providing a place outside version control for private configuration parameters such as database passwords and API Keys.