Java Language

• http://www.java.sun.com/

Compilers

• Java Decompilers
• Java Dynamic Compilers
• Java Native Compilers

Transformation Systems

• Java Parser Generators
• Java Abstract Syntax definitions
• Java Concrete Syntax definitions

• Compost Framework
• JJTraveler -- visitor combinator framework for Java
• JTOM -- pattern matching compiler

Frameworks and tools for transforming Java programs:

• Jakarta Tool Suite (JTS), especially the Jak language
• StrategoXT with java-front
• DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit
• Polyglot Extensible Compiler Framework^?

Transformation systems for Java operate on an abstract syntax representation of Java source code. Unfortunately there are no standard structures for the abstract syntax of Java. See Java Abstract Syntax for the available implementations.

Publications

Tools and methods for Java Program Understanding and Reverse Engineering are discussed in several of the papers by Tarja Systa.

• Tarja Systä, Kai Koskimies, and HausiMueller. Shimba - An Environment for Reverse Engineering Java Software Systems, Software Practice and Experience, 31(4), 2001, pp. 371-394.
• Tarja Systä, Understanding the Behavior of Java Programs, In Proc. of the 7th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2000), Brisbane
• Tarja Systä, On the relationships between static and dynamic models in reverse engineering Java software, In Proc. of the 6th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE99), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 1999, pp.304-313.
• See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tsysta/