An Open Source Fascicule

I recently stumbled upon a new feature that came bundled up with NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta, and found it quite interesting.

A Tokens View and AST View window..

These views are of use more so for module developers, and are not meant for end users. For further information visit this post by Geertjan's weblog

To open the Tokens View goto:
Windows >> Other >> Tokens View.



The tokens view shows all the tokens that will be generated by the Lexical Analyzer for the current java file.


Well I found the feature quite cool. I have studied different phases of compiler, including the lexical analysis phase, not long ago (It is in my college curriculum this semester!) I was quite happy to see first hand information of the tokens that were being generated...(This may sound quite stupid!! Sorry for that.. But thats "NOVICE"-ness for you :-) )

I tried to find out the application and use of this feature and found out this brilliant GLF Tutorial
I hope you find this interesting...