JavaCC
LanguagesWhat is JavaCC?
It is the most popular parser generator for use with Java applications. In addition to the parser generator itself, it provides other standard capabilities related to parser generation such as tree building (via a tool called JJTree included with JavaCC), actions and debugging.
JavaCC is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Generates parsers that are 100% pure Java, so there is no runtime dependency on JavaCC and no special porting effort required to run on different machine platformsLexical specifications can define tokens not to be case-sensitive either at the global level for the entire lexical specification, or on an individual lexical specification basisComes with JJTree, an extremely powerful tree building pre-processorIncludes JJDoc, a tool that converts grammar files to documentation files, optionally in HTML.
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