[antlr-interest] Java Cross Referencer

[Matt Benson]

I would be interested in a share in this.  Don't think
I have the time and/or expertise to do it all myself
(right).  At the very least I can expect what you've
already got is done well... :)  if we wanted to turn
this into a group effort, maybe a few interested
parties could look it over and discuss...

-Matt

--- Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> At one time, for jGuru, I was building a tool to
> scarf lots of java 
> code and do a serious cross reference.  From that I
> was going to be 
> able to do searches like "find all code related to
> EJB that also uses 
> sockets" or something.  I remember getting the
> symbol table mostly 
> right and the symbol resolution almost right.  The
> code is unfinished 
> and sitting on my disk.
> 
> Would love to have someone try to use it as a
> starting point.  Any 
> takers?
> 
> Terence
> 
> On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Matt Benson
> wrote:
> 
> > I worked for a long time to bastardize the
> ANTLR-based
> > refactoring project Transmogrify into doing what I
> > wanted, but eventually ran across the following
> set of
> > articles which basically convinced me that
> > Transmogrify was not as good a starting point as I
> > could find:
> >
> >
>
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Parser/
> >
> > I then resolved to study and understand ANTLR
> before
> > attempting to tackle this problem.  At one point
> > Terence was tossing around the idea of having his
> grad
> > students implement something similar.  There seems
> to
> > be quite a demand for a powerful, versatile, Java
> > parsing package with AST and symbol table
> construction
> > that can be included in an IDE or used otherwise. 
> I
> > know Bogdan Mitu and probably others had worked on
> > incremental lexing/parsing, which would be a
> handy, if
> > not essential feature for such a package.  It all
> > seems like a fairly tall order.
> >
> > Ter, do you have any comments about the articles I
> > mentioned above?  I may have asked before but I
> don't
> > recall whether the question may have been lost in
> the
> > shuffle.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > --- Jim O'Connor <Jim.OConnor at microfocus.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>   In short, what is the best/easiest/most
> complete
> >> Java Cross Referencer
> >> that you have seen/written/used?
> >>
> >> http://home.austin.rr.com/kjohnston/javasrc.htm
> >> http://javasrc.sourceforge.net/
> >>   The ANTLR based Javasrc is very good.  The main
> >> limitations are two fold.
> >> You have to have some intrinsic knowledge of the
> >> hierarchy of classes to
> >> effectively parse a project ( i.e. the two-pass
> >> system).  The other
> >> limitation is that it doesn't support *.class
> files.
> >>  I realize this can be
> >> corrected by "loading" the class into the symbol
> >> table beforehand myself.  I
> >> am not averse to using this project.  I wanted to
> >> pose the question, "Is
> >> there something more complete and easier?".
> >>
> >>
> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/barat
> >>   Barat appears to solve the problems above.  It
> >> handles the class files and
> >> needs no ordering of operations.  It is much more
> >> difficult to work with.
> >> It is based on JavaCC.  The grammar spits out a
> java
> >> file that must be
> >> compiled using the GJ compiler.
> >>
> >>   The ideal solution would  distill the
> appropriate
> >> information from the
> >> jar/class files, parse the *.java files, and
> resolve
> >> the references.  Barat
> >> has a good explanation its "difficulties" with
> >> recursively going after
> >> refernced types when parsing a particular class.
> >> I'll stop the specs here.
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
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