Java EBNF? - McMap

Asked 9/12, 2008 at 13:55 Answered 9/12, 2008 at 17:28

Does anyone know of an accurate source for an (E)BNF for the Java language? Preferably, it would be from an authorative source, e.g. Sun.

Thanks.

Probability answered 9/12, 2008 at 13:55 Comment(0)

First google result :)
Though I can't speak for how up-to-date it might be.

Callus answered 9/12, 2008 at 13:59 Comment(1)

That's for Java 1.2, so it doesn't have generics, assertions, enhanced for-loops, etc. – Orel 9/12, 2008 at 14:59

i believe the 3rd edition is the latest:

Almsman answered 9/12, 2008 at 17:28 Comment(0)

First google result :)
Though I can't speak for how up-to-date it might be.

Callus answered 9/12, 2008 at 13:59 Comment(1)

That's for Java 1.2, so it doesn't have generics, assertions, enhanced for-loops, etc. – Orel 9/12, 2008 at 14:59

I'm not sure what you want the spec for, but you may be interested to know that:

the parser in Javac is hand written. No parser generated tools.
there exists a number of repositories for popular parser generators grammars. Here is JavaCC and ANTLR.

Paderewski answered 9/12, 2008 at 14:27 Comment(1)

Both links are dead now. – Reckford 17/12, 2016 at 10:24