# Spoon

Spoon is an open-source library to analyze, rewrite, transform, transpile Java source code. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API. It fully supports modern Java versions up to Java 16. Spoon is an official Inria open-source project, and member of the OW2 open-source consortium.

# Documentation

The latest official documentation is available at http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/ and a regularly updated PDF version is as https://projects.ow2.org/download/spoon/WebHome/spoon-user-manual.pdf .

# Academic usage

If you use Spoon for academic purposes, please cite: Renaud Pawlak, Martin Monperrus, Nicolas Petitprez, Carlos Noguera, Lionel Seinturier. “ Spoon: A Library for Implementing Analyses and Transformations of Java Source Code ”. In Software: Practice and Experience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Doi: 10.1002/spe.2346.

@article{pawlak:hal-01169705,
  TITLE = "{Spoon: A Library for Implementing Analyses and Transformations of Java Source Code}",
  AUTHOR = {Pawlak, Renaud and Monperrus, Martin and Petitprez, Nicolas and Noguera, Carlos and Seinturier, Lionel},
  JOURNAL = "{Software: Practice and Experience}",
  PUBLISHER = "{Wiley-Blackwell}",
  PAGES = {1155-1179},
  VOLUME = {46},
  URL = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01078532/document},
  YEAR = {2015},
  doi = {10.1002/spe.2346},
}