[antlr-interest] dumbie question: Are there any examples of building antlr programs using different IDEs?

[Tommy Chheng]

Take a look at antlr.org and download antlrworks

Antlrworks can generate the the java files form the grammar files.

tommy

On 10/26/09 8:26 PM, Jacob, Raymond CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 58420 wrote:
> I have a dumbie question regarding where can I find examples of how
> to build an antlr program using different IDEs?
>
>
> Background: I am not a java programmer.
> I have read part of the antlr book by Terrence Parr.
> I think I have gotten as far as the Chapter that use STL to build
> programs. I can not
> remember the exact chapter because I don't have the book
> in front of me.
> I did not say I understood everything in the book.
> I think I understand a few of the examples.
>
> An intern with more brain cells than I have left was developing
> a program using netbeans. So I thought I would give netbeans a
> try. That was about 5 months ago and I still have not figured
> out how to use netbeans to build a grammar with like the examples
> in the book. For instance, I can not figure out how to get the
> IDE to use a separate file for a lexer-the file with the tokens instead
> putting
> all the tokens and the grammar in one file. As far as I can tell
> in order to build a grammar in netbeans I need to know ant
> and modify the build.xml to add the plug-in for antlr in netbeans.
>
> I realize now that I would have been further along if I had
> just used the command line instead of an IDE. But what has
> not been done is done.
>
> Question: Are there any IDEs that make it easy or natural to
> build programs using the code in the Antlr reference
> book? i.e. I want to focus on the code in the book and not the IDE.
>
> If there are not any IDEs for the IDE challenged,
> are there any examples of building antlr programs using different IDEs?
>
> I apologize in advance for my ignorance.
> When I searched the list my Google-fu was weak and I could not find
> anything relevant.
>
> Thank you again
> rjjr
>
>
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