How to Help with the OpenJDK Port

Tue, 2008-03-11 19:42   Tags: 

I've gotten several (at least five or six) emails from people contacting me through this website. It seems to be a common question.

I'd like to publicly apologize to any that I have not responded to personally. To those of you, I'm sorry.

So here, publicly posted, is how to get started in helping out with the OpenJDK port.

  1. Read http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
    You'll need to sign an SCA and do what it says regarding the licensing.
  2. Subscribe to the mailing list for the Haiku Port project at OpenJDK.
    http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/haiku-port-dev
  3. Once you've subscribed, send an email to the list.
    Include your name, interests, skills, and ask what you could do to start right now.

There's been quite a bit of progress from Andrew this last week. He's updated MakeDeps, and he's fiddled with some code from the old beunited.org 1.4.2 port and has it running on Haiku. Great work, Andrew!

The march to bootstrapping an OpenJDK build is underway.

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nutela
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by nutela on Wed, 2008-03-12 10:42.

Cool, the first thing I'll run is jedit : )

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getStartedWithHaiku
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by getStartedWithHaiku on Wed, 2008-03-12 20:03.

Me Eclipse :)

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umccullough
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by Urias McCullough on Wed, 2008-03-12 20:05.

Yahoo! games!

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BryanV
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by Bryan Varner on Wed, 2008-03-12 20:35.

I'm afraid you'll have to wait for an SWT port to do that.

So I doubt it'll be the first app you run. :-)

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getStartedWithHaiku
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by getStartedWithHaiku on Sun, 2008-03-16 10:55.

Ahhh ur right of course, i forgot that "small" portion of plattform dependent libs :/

Still very cool to see progress on that!

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mikesum32
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by mikesum32 on Mon, 2008-03-17 05:08.

Yahoo games ? I didn't know that meme escaped beyond the bounds of the first WalterCon.

Yahoo games !

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arougthopher
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by Paul on Thu, 2008-03-20 14:18.

Maybe not Eclipse, but you could do NetBeans (http://www.netbeans.org)

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emitrax
Re: How to Help with the OpenJDK Port
Submitted by Salvatore Benedetto on Mon, 2008-04-07 20:38.

Any news about this project? :)

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