Language Processing

So I am writing a Java program that needs some language parsing. This language parsing is meant to be extended and modified in the near future. The thing is, i already know how to flex/bison this shit, but I think that flex and bison are shit, so I don't want to use them. Alternatives?

tl/dr: flex and bison are shit, what can i use instead?

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This is why. Also, you don't give enough context: depending on what you're doing, even an hand-coded RDP may be enough.