Parsing Java Source Code

Question

I am asked to develop a software which should be able to create Flow chart/ Control Flow of the input Java source code. So I started researching on it and arrived at followi

Answer 1

Eclipse has a library for parsing the source code and creating Abstract Syntax Tree from it which would let you extract what you want.

See here for a tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseJDT/article.html

See here for api http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/jdt/core/dom/package-summary.html#package_description

Answer 2

Or even more easy: Use reflection. You should be able to compile the sources, load the classes with java classloader and analyse them from there. I think this is far more easy than any parsing.

Answer 3

Your input files are written in Java, and the software should be written in Java, but this is your first project in Java? First of all, I'd suggest learning the language with smaller projects. Also you need to learn how to use graphics in Java (there are various libraries). Then, you should focus on what you want to show on your graphs. Or is text sufficient?