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OpenJDK Cookbook

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OpenJDK Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenJDK Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding OpenJDK projects


OpenJDK projects aim to deliver some kind of an artefact, which can be a source code, documentation, or something else. Projects are sponsored by one or more OpenJDK groups. By their nature, projects are much more short-lived than groups and often can cover the implementation of JEPs or JSRs.

How to do it…

This recipe takes you through some sources of information that are available about OpenJDK projects and gives some high-level information about them:

  1. Similar to OpenJDK Groups, there is a web page that gives some definitions about the projects and defines how they function. This page is available at http://openjdk.java.net/projects/. Among the list of procedures, you will find the following:

    • Becoming an Author

    • Appointing a Contributor to be an Author

    • Nominating a Contributor or Author to be a Committer

    • Nominating a Committer to be a Reviewer

    • Proposing a New Project

  2. Very similar to groups, each project also has its own page on http://openjdk.java.net/. The list of...