[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Is JDT's intermediate AST representation ba

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rahul,

I believe the AST representation is entirely hand built.  There is an 
EMF Java model (JEM), but it's not at the granularity of AST (which even 
represents statements and expressions) and is (I think) effectively a 
read-only model.  I also don't think it's been updated to address Java 
5.0 additions.  I know there is a new project proposal in the works 
(it's been sent to the EMO but I don't see it on the project proposal 
page at Eclipse yet) for the IMP project which will generate an AST 
based on a grammar and help generate JDT-like IDE support for that 
language.  Miguel Garcia is working on similar technology as part of his 
Google SOC project...


Rahul Mishra wrote:
> Hi Ed Merks,
>
>   So, isnt there a JDT generated Model(or representation) of the 
> Abstract Syntax Tree for the programmers facilitation? Because, if the 
> model is available one could naturally use it in language processing 
> field directly or indirectly. Here, directly would refer to using the 
> model itself and indirectly refers to changing the JDT generated model 
> to some other model of the programmer's use. Thanking you in 
> anticipation.
>
> regards,
> Rahul Mishra