Compiler Construction

CSCE 425/825 - Compiler Construction

CSCE 425/825

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Resources

Project

Tools

Java Development Kit (J2SE 5.0) -- http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) -- http://www.nongnu.org/cvs
ANTLR, "a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing Java, C#, C++, or Python actions" -- http://www.antlr.org
ANTLRWorks, a powerful ANTLR grammar development environment -- http://antlr.org/works
ASM, a Java bytecode manipulation framework -- http://asm.objectweb.org
JUnit -- http://junit.org

Eclipse universal tool platform (SDK 3.2) -- http://eclipse.org

Make sure that the Eclipse Java compiler generates Java 5-compliant class files (the ASM and Bytecode outliner plugin does not support Java 6). To set this, open the Window->Preferences... menu item. Expand Java in the preference tree, and select Compiler. Make sure that the Compiler compliance level is set to 5.0.
JDT plugin 3.3 (included in Eclipse SDK) -- http://eclipse.org/jdt
JDT AST Viewer plugin -- http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-ui-home/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.astview/index.html
ASM and Bytecode Outline plugin -- http://asm.objectweb.org/eclipse/index.html
JUnit plugin (included in Eclipse SDK)

Reading

The Java Language Specification -- http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Specification -- http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec

CVS

ASM

JUnit

Documentation -- http://junit.sourceforge.net/#Documentation
For Eclipse users -- see Help->Help Contents->Java Development User Guide->Getting Started->Basic tutorial->Writing and running JUnit tests

Eclipse

Help (accessible by accessing the Help->Help Contents menu item in the Eclipse Workbench)