C++ parser for Java 1.6

[Matt Rogers]

On Monday 10 November 2008 22:33:31 Sandro Andrade wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm currently working in a new development effort aiming at the
> implementation of a software visualization tool. We're going to use
> Qt/KDE so I've tried in last days to find some tool for generating a
> parser (written in C++) for Java 1.6. I'm not sure if I will need all
> information gathered by the parser, since the initial requirements for
> visualization includes just class and package names, base class,
> methods names and parameters, attributes, visibility operators and so
> on. On the other hand, future requirements may demand further
> information, so I would like to keed all possible data in the
> meta-model.
>
> I've been playing with tools like QLALR, bison++, ANTLR, Coco/R,
> java2xml, beautyJ, but I had no success due to input file format for
> grammars, language-specific semantic actions, etc.
>
> What do you recommend for building (using a C++ code) a searchable
> meta-model for a Java 1.6 source-code ?
>
> Thanks in advance,

There's the Java plugin in playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins. It may 
not support all of Java 1.6 yet, but it should be a good start.
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Matt

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Matt