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by Harshad Chavan :: Rate this Message:

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This is amazing stuff Julian. Thanks for doing that.

I might need this in my project.

Kudos to you, JavaCC team and the whole concept of open source and community process.


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From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:00:28 AM
Subject: Re: [JavaCC] Clapham - a railroad diagram generator


On May 11, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Julian Hyde wrote:

> I'm a long time JavaCC user and I'm very happy with it - but my product manager wants me to generate railroad diagrams of our SQL grammar for our documentation.
>
> I couldn't find a tool to do that, so I've started an open source project called Clapham. I just released the first version, and I thought that the JavaCC community would be interested.
>
> Clapham doesn't read JavaCC source files (yet) but it's easy to take the BNF generated by jjdoc and generate diagrams from that. Please give it a try, and let me know what you think. I'm also looking for contributors.
>
> More details:
>     • My blog post: http://julianhyde.blogspot.com/2009/05/clapham-railroad-diagram-generator.html
>     • Home page: http://clapham.hydromatic.net/
>     • SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/clapham

Julian, that is very cool!  If folks want to see a larger example, check out what it generated for the Java grammar:

http://infoether.com/~tom/clapham_java/

Pretty awesome stuff!

Yours,

Tom


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