Code Tools Project

The goal of this Project is to provide tools of use todevelopers who work on the OpenJDK code base. Such tools currentlyinclude test tools and VCS extensions; it is envisaged thatadditional tools will be added over time, after discussion on theProject'smainmailing list and subject to the Project Lead's approval.

This Project is sponsored by theCompiler Group.

Tools - Git

apidiff – API comparison tool [github,email]
asmtools– Assembler Tools (JAsm/JDis and JCod/JDec) [github,email]
doccheck – Utility to check HTMLfiles in the JDK documentation [github,email]
friday-stats – Small utilitiesfor analyzing OpenJDK [github,email]
jcov –Code Coverage Tool [github,email]
jcstress – Java Concurrency Stresstests [github,email]
jextract – Nativelibrary binding extraction tool [github,email]
jmh – Java Microbenchmark Harness [github,email]
jmh-jdk-microbenchmarks– JMH JDK microbenchmarks [github,email ]
jol – Java Object Layout [github,email]
jtharness– JavaTest Harness [github,email]
jtreg – Regression Test Harness forthe OpenJDK platform: jtreg [github,email]
sigtest– Signature Checking Tools [github,email]

Tools - Mercurial

These are older tools, some of them may not be actively maintained.

btrace– Dynamic Java bytecode tracing tool [hg,email]
defpath – Mercurial extension toedit default path settings [hg,email]
jcheck – Mercurial changesetvalidator [hg,email]
jemmy – UI testautomation library [v2 hg,v3 hg,email]
trees – Mercurial extension formanaging multiple repositories [hg,email]
webrev – Tool to generate web-baseddiffs for code reviews [hg,email]

Issues

Issues are tracked in theJDKBug System, in theCODETOOLS project,toolscomponent and its varioussubcomponents.

Mailing List

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