Chapter 8. Hacking OpenJDK
In this chapter we will cover:
- Setting up the development environment with NetBeans
- Working with Mercurial forests
- Understanding OpenJDK 6 and 7 incremental builds
- Debugging Java code using NetBeans
- Debugging C++ code using NetBeans
- Using NetBeans to compile HotSpot
- Using HotSpot dev parameters
- Adding new intrinsic to HotSpot
- Building VisualVM from the source code
- Creating a plugin for VisualVM
- Getting benefits from the AdoptOpenJDK project