Navigating through OpenJDK groups and projects

OpenJDK is not one huge project. It consists of a large number of subprojects, and is developed by relatively small groups of developers. We will look at them and realize what is going on under the hood of OpenJDK.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, you will need an OpenJDK instance installed and an established Internet connection. The recipe is more for the initial understanding of the process rather than for practical use, so if you are familiar with these matters, don't hesitate to skip this recipe entirely.

How to do it...

We will see what OpenJDK consists of:

  1. Go to http://openjdk.java.net/.
  2. In the right column, there are overviews of groups as well as projects.
  3. We will select one of them to get through ...

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