Hi Community,
JavaCC was the first popular parser generator (or compiler-compiler, hence the name) for the Java platform. It originated at Sun Microsystems and was later open-sourced.
In this tutorial, we’ll show how to convert a parser from JavaCC to ANTLR. Indeed, there are legacy parsers that are now dated; those would benefit from using ANTLR instead, which is more actively maintained and has other advantages, as we’ll see.
Let’s see together a semi-automatic translation path, using a software tool that can quickly migrate the most common/boring parts of a grammar leaving only the more interesting bits out.
The full article here: Converting from JavaCC to ANTLR - Strumenta
Cheers,
Elisa