= Meecrowave Command Line Interface
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Meecrowave provides a CLI (Command Line Interface) called `org.apache.meecrowave.runner.Cli`.

It can be used to deploy the java classpath or a war. Here are the main options:

include::../../../../../target/generated-doc/CliConfiguration.adoc[]

Note that `help` command is supported as well.

== Extending the CLI

You can add your own CLI options implementing `org.apache.meecrowave.runner.Cli$Options`
(just a marker interface, no logic to code) and use `@CliOption` to define fields
as coming from the CLI arguments. To register your option bean just add it in `META-INF/services/org.apache.meecrowave.runner.Cli$Options`.

TIP: `Meecrowave.Builder` provides a `getExtension(type)` which can be used to get this
kind of extension. This is common and works in all modes (arquillian, JUnit, embedded etc...)
replacing the arguments by properties on `Meecrowave.Builder` instance.