Question on this project

[ftomassetti]

Hi folks!
I have a few questions on the project. In particular I would like to understand how hard would be for a project to switch from JavaCC to ParserGeneratorCC.

In particular:

• is the syntax any different?
• do you have a maven plugin to invoke ParserGeneratorCC?

Beside that I would like to see if some features could be supported. My intent would be to make an extensible parser.

To do so I would need the generated parser and some methods to not be marked as final. Would that be possible?

[phax]

• The syntax is totally identical
• The focus is to deliver better generated code (especially for easier maintenance)
• Get rid of all the Java 1.6 stuff
• Current version is used in ph-javacc-maven-plugin and nobody noticed (?) the different.
• Getting feedback from the JavaCC maintainers was hard to get and errors that blocked me were never solved (even with a present PR)

P.S. It's folk only - no folks so far

[ftomassetti]

I tried moving to version 4.0.3 of ph-javacc-maven-plugin, therefore using ParserGeneratorCC instead of JavaCC in JavaParser. No changes needed so I can confirm that the effort of migrating is simply zero :)