Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Roger Riggs]

Hi,

For InteliJ, the <top>/common/bin/idea.sh will generate a project for 
all modules.

For Netbeans, there are a series of projects in <top>/jdk/make/netbeans.

fyi, Roger


On 6/5/2017 12:30 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Sorry for what must seem like a newbie question...
>
> I've done almost all of my work on HotSpot, and have very little
> experience trying to use an IDE to work on the Java library.  Eclipse
> is fine when working on libraries outdie the JDK itself, but seems to
> want to look inside src.zip for its sources when debugging.  It would
> be really nice to be able to see (and edit) the real Java source files
> in jdk/java.base/.
>
> I suppose there must be some way to create a Project for an IDE, so
> that debugging the standard library is easy.  Is there some advice
> around somewhere?  What do people do?
>
> Thanks,
>