Java gurus, I am having trouble calling the methods of the class from this package: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/picocli/picocli/4.7.6/picocli-4.7.6.jar The programmatic API docs are here: https://picocli.info/picocli-programmatic-api.html and it says I have to use the 3 main model classes CommandSpec, OptionSpec and PositionalParamSpec to define a command. I can load the jar and createObject for CommandLine, but don't know how to call any of its methods, and I don't know how to createObject of CommandSpec. I've tried:

commandline = createObject("java", "picocli.CommandLine") // OK
commandspec = createObject("java", "picocli.CommandSpec") // class not found
commandline.CommandSpec() // method not found

I've tried many things and nothing is found. I've have successfully used LaunchDarkly java sdk in cfml. Would really appreciate some help understanding java packages and how they differ when using them programmatically in cfml, and what makes this picocli package differnt than launchdarkly launch darkly source: https://github.com/launchdarkly/java-server-sdk picocli source: https://github.com/remkop/picocli

I don't really know anything about this library, but there's no

CommandSpec()

method on the

CommandLine

class so I'm not sure why you're trying to call that.

inner classes with $, right.

And then use the static

create()

method to get an instance

Awesomeness. It worked

Can someone present this in a session or maybe a workshop at cfCamp next year please? 😉 "All the ways you never knew to use Java in CF" 🙏

Java interop is always a great topic, though I've found often times the biggest hurdle for CF devs is just understanding how Java works. I knew nothing of Java when I first became a CF dev, and the more I've learned about basic Java stuff, the more it's helped. Just the difference between static and instance data was a huge revelation for me at one point.