Building Parsers with Java

About this book

Parser building is a powerful programming technique that opens a world of opportunity for designing how users interact with applications. By creating mini-languages you can precisely address the requirements of your application development domain. Writing your own parsers empowers you to access a database more effectively than SQL to efficiently control the movement of an order through its workflow to command the actions of a robot and to control access privileges to transactions in a system. The repertoire of todays professional programmer should include the know-how to create custom languages. Building Parsers with Java shows how to create parsers that recognize custom programming languages. This book and its accompanying CD provide an in-depth explanation and clearly written tutorial on writing parsers following the Interpreter Design Pattern. An easy-to-follow demonstration on how to apply parsers to vital development tasks is included using more than a hundred short examples numerous UML diagrams and a pure Java parser toolkit to illustrate key points. You will learn How to design code and test a working parser How to create a parser to read a data language and how