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OpenJDK Cookbook

You're reading from OpenJDK Cookbook Over 80 recipes to build and extend your very own version of Java platform using OpenJDK project

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849698405

Length 298 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

OpenJDK

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Kobylyanskiy

Mironchenko

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with OpenJDK FREE CHAPTER

2. Building OpenJDK 6

3. Building OpenJDK 7

4. Building OpenJDK 8

5. Building IcedTea

6. Building IcedTea with Other VM Implementations

7. Working with WebStart and the Browser Plugin

8. Hacking OpenJDK

9. Testing OpenJDK

10. Contributing to OpenJDK

11. Troubleshooting

12. Working with Future Technologies

13. Build Automation

Index

Building OpenJDK 7 on Mac OS X

OpenJDK 7 supports the Mac OS X platform as a first class citizen and building it using the proper version of toolchain is almost as easy as on Linux.

Historically, Java had first class support on Mac OS X. JDK was based on Sun codebase but built by Apple and integrated fully into their operating system environment. Up to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, graphical user interface applications written using the standard Swing toolkit had access to most of the Cocoa native interface features. Applications written in Java were very close to native ones, while still being cross-platform.

But with the next releases, the level of Java support went down. Starting from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, newer Cocoa features became unsupported for Java. Release of Apple Java 6 was postponed (comparing to Sun releases for other platforms) for more than a year. Java 6 was released in December 2006 but was not available for Mac OS X users until April 2008. Finally in October 2010, Apple officially...

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Authors (2)

Kobylyanskiy

Kobylyanskiy

Stanislav Kobylyanskiy is a software developer with years of Java experience. He started his career with C++ and system programming in the late 90s with the Aelita software (now DELL). After a few years, he switched to Java and then moved to telecom. At that time, he joined T-Mobile, UK, to rebuild their Customer Service Web Portal, which lasted for about 4 years. Currently, he is with an investment bank where he is working on a strategic algorithmic trading platform. He is continuously looking for new challenges and to extend his knowledge of core Java technologies.

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Mironchenko

Mironchenko

Alexey Mironchenko is a software developer with experience in scalable enterprise projects, involving Java EE, NoSQL databases, and various other frameworks. He has a mathematical background with some COQ and Maxima experience, and his hobby is to test cutting-edge technologies that are open source or in early access.

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