Renovating an Open Source Project

Renovate a program is always a hard work and full of problems. It requires a good knowledge of the old program and research and investigation. RECODER is a tool for supporting static metaprogramming of Java program sources. This tool has been patches over and over again since the new versions of Java were coming out. Because of that the code starts to be dirty and with a lot of patches. In order to clean up the implementation the code should be renovated. In this thesis, we present the changes that were introduced to the grammar and the implementation of the new parser for RECODER using a different technology. RECODE