OpenJDK Cookbook

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Set up a development environment and start hacking OpenJDK
• Understand advanced features such as adding new intrinsics to JVMs
• Build different versions of OpenJDK for different operating systems and architectures
• Write reliable tests using jtreg and get a good understanding of the tool
• Create and sub limit patches with improvements and bug fixes
• Understand valuable techniques, native code debugging, and incremental builds
• Prepare VirtualBox machines with different operating systems
• Understand the process behind JEPs

Who this book is for

If you are an experienced Java developer using Java 7 platform and want to get your grips on OpenJDK for Java development, this is the book for you. JDK users who wish to migrate to OpenJDK will find this book very useful.