Java EBNF?

Question

Does anyone know of an accurate source for an (E)BNF for the Java language? Preferably, it would be from an authorative source, eg Sun.

Thanks.

Answer 1

i believe the 3rd edition is the latest:

JLS 3rd edition

Answer 2

First google result :)
Though I can't speak for how up-to-date it might be.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you want the spec for, but you may be interested to know that:

• the parser in Javac is hand written. No parser generated tools.
• there exists a number of repositories for popular parser generators grammars. Here is JavaCC and ANTLR .