[antlr-interest] Getting started with ANTLR 3, IDEs and Maven

[Martijn Reuvers]

Sounds good!! I am gonna give it a try over the weekend and let you
know how it works. :)

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Jim Idle <jimi at temporal-wave.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Prompted by a request earlier this week for a sample of how to use Antlr
> grammars within IDEs and builds, I thought I would create a Maven Archetype
> that can create a sample Antlr project seemingly out of thin air. If you are
> willing to use Maven, or already do so, then this saves you a lot of work
> trying to configure the project from scratch.
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> There is now a Wiki page on getting started with Maven builds at:
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> http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Building+ANTLR+Projects+with+Maven
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> and this shows you how to create a template Maven project  that you can then
> open with Netbeans, Eclipse or any other IDE that supports maven projects.
> The template project is a real lexer, parser (with imports) and tree parser,
> with a driver program that scans directories for files it can parse. It will
> also produce a dot specification for the AST it produces and turn that spec
> into a .png file assuming you have loaded the Graphviz application.
> Basically it is designed to answer a lot of the FAQ type stuff that happens
> with the Maven plugin and ANTLR/Java in general.
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> Please note that the Archetype was only deployed to the repository about an
> hour ago and so it may not be available in Maven central repo just yet. If
> you try the instructions on the Wiki page and receive “Artifact
> antlr3-maven-archetype does not exist”, then just try again a bit later. It
> can take up to 4 hours for Maven central to sync up with the Antlr
> repository.
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> If experienced Maven users would be kind enough to test this and provide
> feedback, I would be grateful. Source is deployed with the artifact if you
> want to play with it.
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> Cheers,
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> Jim
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