Reputation: 1376
What's the best tool for generating a parser in Java for my own language grammar?
I'm developing a small programming language based mostly of the C99 standard and I've already written a fairly decent lexer in java and now I'm looking to generate a Java Parser from the grammar. I know there's Bison, but that seems to only generate C code. I'm looking for a application that will allow me to input my grammar and create a full parser class in java code. Reading other SO posts on related topics, I've found ANTLR, but I'm wondering if anyone in the SO knows about a better tool?
thanks!
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1508
Answers (3)
Reputation: 6826
The JFlex home page at http://jflex.de indicates where to find Bison-like tools that can target Java:
http://byaccj.sourceforge.net/ http://www2.cs.tum.edu/projects/cup/ http://www.antlr.org/
Upvotes: 0
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