Port to HP Itanium OpenVMS

[Josef Stadelmann]

Hi all, 

I am absolute new on OpenJDK forum.

Intention: start a port to OpenVMS Itanium

Question: which project has to be ported first, given that OpenVMS has a JDK 1.6.0_05 but does not have JDK 1.7.0_*

Reason: It is unclear since Months, what HP's JAVA OpenVMS Roadmap will be. But we need to know where we have to go. 

Fact: Annotaions like @Requestwrapper or @Responsewrapper or @Addressing, used in Web Service Java Code i.e. Apache Axis2/JAXWS support, are having demand on JDK 7.0 / 8.0  which is not available for HP OpenVMS. Hence we can use Annotations only very limitted.

Question 1: Where shall I start reading on OpenJDK? 
Question 2: Which OpenJDK project needs to be ported first to get on OpenVMS $ JAVA.EXE running? 
                 (i.e. executing i.e. older byte code)

Any hints and redirections to the proper group / project / mailing list is very welcome.

Josef.Stadelmann
@axa-winterthur.ch