Ken Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I've been looking on the web but couldn't seem to
> find a parser that would create a java model
> (Class, method, field etc). Basically I want to
> use a java source file as an input, and the
> parser would return some sort of model for me to
> retrieve information about the class, package,
> methods, fields etc.
For, err, umm, UML modeling perhaps? I ask only for purposes of information.
> The closest thing I've found is the Eclipse
> project's JDT core, but I'm not sure if I
> can/allowed to use the library without running
> the Eclipse runtime.
As far as I can tell you can't, but I could be wrong. I haven't tried *that* hard yet.
> Another option I'm looking at is the JavaCC,
> which I would have to manually add in my own
> actions in the grammar to get the information (a
> bit too low level).
I agree.
> Anyone used something like this before
> (preferrably open source)? What was your
> experience like?
Sorry, don't know about anything like that.
Will you settle for a freely distributed "com.sun" API instead? It sounds like the
"Doclet" classes (package "com.sun.doclet") will give you just about exactly what you
are want. Check out the API JavaDoc here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/javadoc/doclet/
-- Roger
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