Using an IDE to work on the Java library

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> Slightly off topic.. but I'm a big fan of OpenGrok[1] for navigating the
> JDK sources. Great for sharing links also.
>
> It would be great if we could get an external instance of such a service
> to index JDK sources.
>
> regards,
> Sean.
>
> [1] https://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/
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The BSD folks use it too: http://bxr.su/

I love OpenGrok. Have set it up internally for our team and it is almost
the first thing I set up on every development machine I work on, even on
Windows. I always wanted to set up a public opengrok server to grep openjdk
repos, but so far shied away from cost and maintenance.

..Thomas


> On 22/11/2017 17:54, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>> I remember back in the '80s the tool vendors were making fun of us folk
>> who
>> used "grep" as their code understanding tool.  Now 30 years later, I still
>> live in Emacs with recursive grep being my main way of navigating the
>> sources.  It's tough because openjdk's java sources may be ahead of IDE
>> language support, and the sources also come with lots of hard-to-grok C++
>> and Makefiles.
>>
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