[antlr-interest] ANTLRWorks 2 (for ANTLR v4)

[Terence Parr]

On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Andreas Stefik wrote:
>>> On the last point from another email, with porting to the NetBeans
> platform, I can certainly understand your hesitation, considering
> there are multiple IDE's out there (e.g., at least eclipse), where
> things could be ported, and the learning curve on any of the platforms
> can be pretty steep. As I'm sure you know, with something like
> NetBeans, you would get 90% of the way there just by starting with:
> http://kenai.com/projects/nbantlr, which I think is posted on your
> site, but yaa, I definitely sympathize not wanting to spend time
> learning complicated APIs.

Yeah,It's a really tough decision because there are so many rich platforms! grrr... at the end of the day, making something simple allows other users to use the widgets without having to know a specific platform.

> 
> There might be some other options. I haven't looked into what
> technique you use to draw the syntax diagrams, run the interpreter, or
> whatever, but if those were made available as public
> APIs/implementation in AW as jar files you could load up, others could
> really easily integrate them into NetBeans, as you can just embed
> swing components/hook into the debugger API, etc. That could,
> potentially, give a boost to the kenai project.

yep, we are hoping to make each of the components separately usable item.
Ter