Selenium 3.0.1 -interactive gives ParameterException: Unknown option: -interactive

Question

How to run selenum standanlone jar in interactive mode so that we can trigger commands from terminal. When I run as shown below exception occurs

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.1.jar -interactive
Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException: Unknown option: -interactive
    at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parseValues(JCommander.java:742)
    at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:282)
    at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:265)
    at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.<init>(JCommander.java:210)
    at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3$1.setConfiguration(GridLauncherV3.java:219)
    at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.buildLauncher(GridLauncherV3.java:147)
    at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.main(GridLauncherV3.java:73)

However I am able to run version 2.48.2 in the above manner and it works fine.

Answer 1

starting version 3, the selenium team changed the available configuration options (see an example configuration), as well as replaced the command line arguments parser to JCommander.

the implications are;

• some options may not be available anymore, or their names have changed. looking at the V3 example configuration, it seems the support for -interactive has dropped.
• you should specify all -D arguments first, i.e. right after the java command.