A little more verbose (as member of class JDepsTask):
enum Option { VERBOSE (false, "-v", "--verbose"), PACKAGE (true, "-p", "--package"), ...; private boolean hasParam; private String[] aliases; private Option (boolean hasParam, String aliases...) { ...; } process (String form, String param) { If (hasParam && (param == null || param.length == 0 || param.charAt(0) == '-')) throw new BadArgs("err.missing.arg", form).showUsage(true); switch (this) { case VERBOSE : verbose = Verbose.VERBOSE; break; case PACKAGE : packageNames.add(param); break; ... } } } -Ulf