recommended IDE for developing openjdk?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

IntelliJ IDEA works well, and more than a few OpenJDK developers use it.

There's a script bin/idea.sh in the OpenJDK repos that you can execute 
to initialize a project that can be opened in the IDE.

-- Jon

On 1/15/21 12:32 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About 10 years ago I used eclipse to work on OpenJDK, however I would like
> to get rid of it because of its slow/ugly user interface.
> I wonder, are there any recommendations which IDE to use these days?
> I gave IntelliJ a try but having not used it that much (except for some
> fairly standard maven based projects) I failed to configure it correctly,
> however I haven't tried Netbeans still.
>
> So to make it short: Which IDE is known to cope well with working on the
> OpenJDK codebase?
> And are there detailed instructions available for creating an openjdk
> project with intellij?
> Or would I be better off using netbeans?
>
> Thank, Clemens