Re: seeking an OO or functional parser generator for Java

[Dave Lee <address@hidden>]

Seth Gordon wrote:
> I need to write a lexer and parser in Java.  I've looked at JFlex/CUP 
> and ANTLR, but I'm wondering if anyone has made a decent parser 
> generator in Java that uses Java objects, not text files with snippets 
> of Java code, to describe the grammars.

lolo may provide what you are looking for.

http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/alumni/bernd/lolo/

this paper provides a good intro/overview:

http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/alumni/bernd/lolo/staff/paper_lolo.pdf

Dave