RFR: 8295884: Implement IDE support for Eclipse [v43]

[Erik Joelsson]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:24:49 GMT, Julian Waters <jwaters at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Eclipse is a popular and very well-known IDE in the world of Java development, utilized widely in many contexts, by beginners and experienced teams alike. Although a relatively lightweight IDE, it features surprisingly powerful indexing and code analysis capabilities, as well as useful tools, among which are make integration. While the tools it provides are not always as sophisticated as other IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA will likely come to mind as one such competitor), the simplicity of using it, as well as the reliability of this rugged IDE makes up greatly for the slightly less advanced tooling. Eclipse requires very little starting infrastructure in the workspace for all these features and indexing support as well, which makes it a good candidate for developing on the JDK.
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>> This enhancement adds 4 extra targets to the make system for generating a basic Eclipse Workspace that provides almost full indexing support for the JDK, with varying levels as desired, from a minimalistic option only including the Java Virtual Machine's source code, to generating a workspace with both Java and C/C++ natures included, which allows for using Eclipse's unique ability to quickly swap between Java and C/C++ mode to work on both native and Java sources at the same time. Cross Compiling support is available, and in its entirety the change touches very little of the existing make system, barring its own Makefile within the ide subdirectory.
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>> Indexing capabilities utilizing the enhancement:
>> <img width="960" alt="java" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32636402/197784819-67ec7de4-7e27-4f33-b738-59b75a9e4403.PNG">
>> <img width="787" alt="escape" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32636402/197784843-df8621a8-7b0a-42da-86f4-3afb92de0f71.PNG">
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> Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Review

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10853