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Java Front-End Status
Maintained by Karl Trygve Kalleberg
Current status
The front-end is deemed to be nearly feature complete. There are only minor fixes to be done
until active development work will stop and only routine maintenance will be done. Suggestions for
improvements are still very welcome.
The following features have been tested and is believed to be working
- Parsing of class-, interface, throws-, package-, import-, method-, constructor- and
variable-constructs.
- Generation of proper IDs for all parsed constructs, except calls and variables.
- Recursive traversal of the filesystem looking for .java files.
- Dumping of syntactically and semantically correct .xml files
Issues still battled with
- The location and ID for variables is based only in the variables IDENT.
- Proper call-tree generation, so we handle overloading. This requires us to parse the
expressions for the arguments of a call, and match those against available methods. This in
turn will require full semantic processing, and the ability to fetch type information from
.class/.jar files. A reasonable hack in the interim will be simple argument counting.
- The lexer eats all the comments. We'd like those passed through the parser and tree-builder
so they end up in the AST. Alternatively, a second pass over the file with a cut-down parser
could work, but I'm not sure I'd consider this 'proper'.
- I should still fix my emacs' settings for Java. The code looks like it's having a nasty
hangover..
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