Java EBNF?

Question

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.

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 09 '08 at 17:28

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i believe the 3rd edition is the latest:

answered Dec 09 '08 at 17:28

james

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '08 at 13:59

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

answered Dec 09 '08 at 13:59

J Cooper

That's for Java 1.2, so it doesn't have generics, assertions, enhanced for-loops, etc. – Michael Myers Dec 09 '08 at 14:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '08 at 14:27

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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.

answered Dec 09 '08 at 14:27

jamesh

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