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The goal of thisGroup is toextensively document current IDE alternatives for working on theOpenJDK codebase and to centralize tooling support discussions.
We already have pretty comprehensive support for OpenJDKdevelopment in both IntelliJ and Netbeans, but the main, longstanding problem has been one of lack of adequate communication andcoordination between these various efforts, which often led(frustrated) developers to the path of "I'll write my ownsupport".
This group will, first and foremost, extensively document thealternatives that are already available at present, as well as tocapture discussions related to tooling support which are currentlyscattered among many mailing list (compiler-dev,jtreg-dev,build-dev).
We want OpenJDK to be a welcoming place for developers, and thisgroup feels that improving IDE/tooling support plays a crucial rolein reducing the activation energy required to start hacking on theOpenJDK codebase.