JavafeExplanation

JavaFE is the original DEC-SRC Java front-end. It lexes and parses Java 1.5+ bytecode and Java 1.4 source code. It is used by several other MOBIUS subsystems including ESCJava2, RCC, Houdini, and the universes typechecker. It was originally developed by DEC-SRC but has been improved and extended over the past several years in a variety of ways.

Some MOBIUS subsystems use JavaFE as their front-end, as it is a reliable, well-understood subsystem. Its main drawbacks are (1) that it only supports pre-Java 1.5 source code, thus does not support parameterized classes, enumerations, foreach loops, etc., and (2) its license is non-standard and not a recognized Free/Open Source license.

The latest release of JavaFE is version 2.0.11.

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