metaas announced: ActionScript DOM in Java
metaas is an ActionScript parser/code generator written in Java that, "provides Java applications with a 'Document Object Model' for ActionScript 3 code." David states in his email that the primary purpose of metaas is as a code generator but what excites me most are its potential uses in pre-processing/post-processing of ActionScript code, documentation generation, etc. Having an ActionScript-aware DOM in Java could also be useful for ActionScript editors like the open source ASDT project.
From the documentation, here's a snippet that demonstrates how to parse an ActionScript file:
[java]FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("Test.as");
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
ActionScriptFactory fact = new ActionScriptFactory();
ActionScriptParser parser = fact.newParser();
ASCompilationUnit unit = parser.parse(reader);
ASPackage pkg = unit.getPackage();
ASType type = pkg.getType();
List methods = type.getMethods();
for (Iterator i=methods.iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
{
ASMethod meth = (ASMethod)i.next();
System.out.println(meth.getName());
}[/java]
Learn more about metaas on the metaas homepage.
The metaas announced: ActionScript DOM in Java article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
spender
one of the things i miss the most from visual studio when I put my as3/eclipse hat on are the excellent refactoring tools. hopefully this kind of tool will bring some of that power to the eclipse environment. woo
December 17th, 2006 at 11:50 pmJavaman
I use Java usually.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pmI like Visual Basic…
giuseppe
Thx for sharing this mate - very useful, I will give it a try
May 19th, 2008 at 11:18 amDaniel
I am not getting why ActionScript is not use to make a video sharing site.
June 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pmI really love the graphic and animation that you can create with flash but:
How come you Spider can’t still read ActionScript?
How come you need a flash streaming to host videos?
Would flash be soon the king of internet or it will disappear?
jacks
what about Android on Iphone?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:36 pmSean
Great staff dude, If i could program, I will do an open source software that users can download to their mobile phone and customise it, so everyone would have a different interface
June 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm