Hack OpenJDK with NetBeans IDE

Vladimir Voskresensky

Jun. 10, 13 · Java Zone · Interview

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Since recently, the OpenJDK repository contains a NetBeans project for all C/C++ parts of the OpenJDK, including Hotspot.

That means that now NetBeans IDE can easily be used to review, hack, and develop OpenJDK. Simple howto is as follows:

Get OpenJDK, as follows:

#hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/build jdk_trunk
#cd jdk_trunk
#sh get_source.sh
#mkdir build
#cd build
#sh ../configure

After the "configure" step is complete, remember the value assigned to "Boot JDK" and then:
```
#export IDE_ALT_BOOTDIR=jdk_path_found_by_configure
#netbeans
```
Start NetBeans IDE (with C++ support) and open projects from "common/nb_native". The project already contains configurations for Solaris, Linux, and MacOS. Just switch to the appropriate configuration and enjoy hacking OpenJDK.

Source tree, navigator, mark occurrences, and macro expansion:

Call graph:

"Run", which runs Java, and shows the same info as in the command line:

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