Adopt OpenJDK Hackday last weekend

[Donald Smith]

These are awesome, thanks to not only those who run and participate, but for reporting back to the lis.  Kudos!

 - Don

> On Apr 28, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just like every month we had another Adopt OpenJDK Hackday last weekend in
> London, see http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/221366028/.
> 
> This time around we were able to execute more sub-projects as we have a few
> attendees who were experienced with OpenJDK. Here's a list of things we
> covered:
> 
> -- Load up OpenJDK sources in your IDE --
> http://neomatrix369.gitbooks.io/adoptopenjdk-getting-started-kit/content/virtual-machines/sharing_host_folder_with_guest_vm.html
> 
> -- Testing Java Early (plus Cloudbees) --
> http://neomatrix369.gitbooks.io/adoptopenjdk-getting-started-kit/content/advanced-steps/testing_java_early_project.html
> 
> One of the attendees tried building Maven using OpenJDK 9 EA binaries.
> 
> -- Project Kulla: Java REPL --
> http://neomatrix369.gitbooks.io/adoptopenjdk-getting-started-kit/content/openjdk-projects/kulla.html
> 
> (Kulla build on cloudbees was fixed during the course of the Hackday)
> 
> -- Cleaning up build warnings --
> http://neomatrix369.gitbooks.io/adoptopenjdk-getting-started-kit/content/intermediate-steps/cleaning_up_build_warnings.html
> 
> 
> -- OpenJDK static analysis / code-coverage (SonarQube) --
> http://neomatrix369.gitbooks.io/adoptopenjdk-getting-started-kit/content/advanced-steps/openjdk_code_coverage.html
> 
> A group of us were also busy with investigating OAuth for the Betterrev
> project. A couple showed interest in the Adopt OpenJDK github projects and
> also the gitbook.
> Cheers,
> Mani
> 
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