Start using OpenJDKTM with the NetBeansTM IDE by taking advantage of tutorials on the NetBeans Web Site that introduce users to the OpenJDK project sources and demonstrate how to work with them in its IDE.

Sun recently released parts of the JavaTM Development Kit (JDKTM) to the OpenJDK project on java.net under the GNU General Public License version two (GPLv2), including a JDK for JavaTM Platform Standard Edition (JavaTM SE), unencumbered source code for Sun's future implementation of Java SE 7, and binary plugs for the remaining few instances of encumbered code.

NetBeans breaks down OpenJDK sources into nine of its projects, explaining how to get the sources and access them as NetBeans projects. The NetBeans OpenJDK project tutorials include:

• Javac Compiler: This JavaTM programming language compiler compiles Java source code into bytecode class files.

• JavadocTM: This tool parses the declaration and documentation comments in a set of Java source files and produces a set of HTML pages describing the classes, interfaces, constructors, methods and fields.

• JConsole: This GUI monitoring tool complies to the JavaTM Management Extensions (JMXTM) specification. The JConsole API provides a programmatic interface to access JConsole.

• JMX: Sources cover the JMX API, which is a standard Java API for management and monitoring of resources such as applications, devices, services and the JavaTM Virtual Machine (JVMTM). (Trademark Note: The terms "Java Virtual Machine" and "JVM" mean a Virtual Machine for the Java platform.)

• Swing: This project addresses the all-Java Swing user interface components.
• AWT and Java 2DTM: This project covers the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), which supports graphical user interface programming, and Java 2D, which is a set of classes for advanced 2D graphics and imaging.

• JavaTM Archive (JAR) and Zip: The ZIP format, supported in the java.lang.zip APIs and the JAR APIs and JAR tool are focused on in this project.

• J2SETM: This project works to build the Java SE workspace.

• World: The sources in this project build Java HotspotTM and Java SE. [...read more...]
  
  
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