RFR [9] 8074716: IntelliJ IDEA project support

[Chris Hegarty]

Thanks for looking at this Roger.

Webrev updated in-place:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/idea/
 
On 2 May 2016, at 19:05, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> For navigation, it seems to work fine.
> 
> It does add test source folders for test directories that do not exist (corba/test and jaxws/test).
> Perhaps, omit them from the template.jdk.iml.

Thanks, updated.

> And it adds source folders to a quite a number of directories under build/<xxx>/support/gensrc
> that do not exist. But I suppose it can not know they will never exist.

Right, they don’t negatively affect the project.

> idea.sh: 46  "--version" -> "--verbose"
> 
> idea.gmk: 8 "specificaton" -> "specification"
> 
> template/vcs.xml:  uneven indentation

Fixed.

> I did not get the jtreg run option to work, it seemed to compile files with the wrong compiler
> and tried to compile module-info.java files.

I’ll take a closer look into this.

> Still, I appreciate being able to use it for navigation and editing.

Great. Thanks,

-Chris.

> Thanks, Roger
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/29/2016 9:12 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> A while back Maurizio announced a beta version of IntelliJ IDEA project
>> support for OpenJDK [1]. We got some great feedback and have made
>> several improvements since then. We believe that it is now suitable for
>> integration into the mainline JDK 9 forests. To that end, please review
>> the following changes:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/idea/
>> 
>> Summary:
>> 
>> - To create a new project run 'bash common/bin/idea.sh [MODULE-NAME ]+'
>> ( a configuration must exist, as the script leverages its state )
>> This creates a project in the .idea directory of top-level repository.
>> An optional, space separated, list of modules can be provided, in
>> which case the project will contain sources for only the given modules.
>> Otherwise, the project will contain the sources for all JDK modules.
>> The project can be opened by pointing IntelliJ at the top-level
>> directory.
>> 
>> - A project generation script is necessary, to include platform
>> specific code, and code generated into platform / spec specific
>> locations. It is not practicable to create a static standard project.
>> 
>> Further details on building and running tests were included in
>> Maurizio's initial mail [1], so I won't repeat them here.
>> 
>> -Chris.
>> 
>> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2015-January/003645.html
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