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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: How to scan Java source texts?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:38:54 -0400
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On 06/12/2013 12:44 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> I don't see a way to do what you want using the existing API.
>
>    Thanks for your remarks!, which helped me
>    to find out that it can be done, once one
>    is willing to use the »com.sun....«-classes,
>    such as »Scanner«. »tools.jar« needs to be in
>    the classpath for this.

The only problem I see now is gaining access to the protected
Scanner constructor outside of the com.sun.tools.javac.parser package.

Maybe I'll try extending my newly built javac
to include a -tokenize extension as above.


>    Now, there indeed is the risk that these classes
>    will change in future JDK versions. But still
>    I estimate them to be more stable than some
>    third-party libraries. For example, for the same
>    purpose I used a third-party program before that
>    now has not been adapted to Java >= 1.5, so that I
>    now needed to find some means to accomplish this
>    for Java >= 1.5.
>