Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Andrew Haley]

Hi,

On 22/11/17 15:09, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> I suspect the problem is that the sources of the jdk.internal.vm.ci 
> module (and a few other modules) are not in the package hierarchy under 
> share/classes. I.e., there is no 
> src/jdk.internal.vm.ci/share/classes/jdk/vm/ci/code (as there is 
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang). There is only 
> src/jdk.internal.vm.ci/share/classes/jdk.vm.ci.code/src/jdk/vm/ci/code, 
> but the (module) source path is referring to src/*/share/classes, not to 
> src/*/share/classes/jdk.vm.ci.code/src. I suspect this needs some 
> workarounds in IDE projects, as there are workarounds in the build 
> system for this. I don't think anyone was using the project for these 
> modules so far (the project is working OK for me for java.compiler, 
> jdk.compiler, java.base, jdk.jshell and occasionally java.desktop). I'll 
> see what can be done.

That would be awesome!  The last few days I've been trying to work on
this have sometimes felt like I was losing my mind.  Rather
ironically, the explanation for the very odd arrangement of these
source files was that it was what IDEs wanted.  Go figure...

Thanks again.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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