Java AST Tree

[irishScott]

Is it one tree with a "master root" or a series of trees with import statements, class declaration, etc as roots?

 

[statik213]

Can you expand a little more? What exactly do you mean by AST? Abstract Syntax Tree? If so, in what context?
Also... if it is a "tree" it should have only one root... or else it's not really a tree.

 

[kamper]

Writing a compiler? Seems to me there's a few ways you could look at it. Each file is it's own tree, sure. Of course you can't compile a single java file without taking other things into account. You could probably view the package hierarchy as a tree, with either source code or a pre-compiled class at each node. I don't think you'd need anything outside of that. I'm trying to think of how classloading could come into play during compilation and I don't think it can...