[antlr-interest] Java AST Grammar

Olivier Lefevre lefevrol at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 19 17:48:43 PST 2008


Adam Cooney wrote:
> I'm rather new to ANTLR and require a java AST grammar which will end up 
> taking a Java file as an input and creating the AST for the Java code. 

Perhaps you don't need ANTLR for this. The JDK has included an AST API for
some time: it lives in the com.sun.source.tree and com.sun.source.util 
packages. It is not well documented but googling for "tree API" + javac (or 
java) should bring up enough information to get you started.

-- O.L.



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