How to read the contents of (.bib) file format usi

Question

I need to read .bib file and insert it tags into an objects of bib-entries

the file is big (almost 4000 lines) , so my first question is what to use (bufferrReader or FileReader) the general format is

@ARTICLE{orleans01DJ,
author = {Doug Orleans and Karl Lieberherr},
title = {{{DJ}: {Dynamic} Adaptive Programming in {Java}}},
journal = {Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns 3rd
Int'l Conf. (Reflection 2001), {LNCS} 2192},
year = {2001},
pages = {73--80},
month = sep,
editor = {A. Yonezawa and S. Matsuoka},
owner = {Administrator},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
timestamp = {2009.03.09}
}

@ARTICLE{Ossher:1995:SOCR,
author = {Harold Ossher and Matthew Kaplan and William Harrison and Alexander
Katz},
title = {{Subject-Oriented Composition Rules}},
journal = {ACM SIG{\-}PLAN Notices},
year = {1995},
volume = {30},
pages = {235--250},
number = {10},
month = oct,
acknowledgement = {Nelson H. F. Beebe, University of Utah, Department of Mathematics,
110 LCB, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA,
Tel: [phone], FAX: [phone], e-mail: \path|[e-mail]|,
\path|[e-mail]|, \path|[e-mail]| (Internet), URL:
\path|http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/|},
bibdate = {Fri Apr 30 12:33:10 MDT 1999},
coden = {SINODQ},
issn = {0362-1340},
keywords = {ACM; object-oriented programming systems; OOPSLA; programming languages;
SIGPLAN},
owner = {Administrator},
timestamp = {2009.02.26}
}

As you can see , there are some entries that have more than line, entries that end with } entries that end with }, or }},

Also , some entries have {..},{..}.. in the middle so , i am a little bit confused on how to start reading this file and how to get these entries and manipulate them. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

We currently discuss different options at JabRef.

These are the current options:

• JBibTeX
• ANTLRv3 Grammar
• JabRef's BibtexParser.java