Working on Swing Using the NetBeans IDE

This Swing NetBeans project allows a developer interested in making changes to

and/or fixing bugs in swing to modify, build, run and test swing in a

standalone manner as well as generating the javadoc for the swing classes.

README FIRST

  make/netbeans/README to get started with NetBeans IDE and OpenJDK, and

  working with the OpenJDK NetBeans projects.

WORKING WITH SWING

Swing doesn't contain native code; it's pure java. You don't need to

have all the Java SE sources to work on Swing but just the following subset:

            make/netbeans/ 

            javax/swing/

            com/sun/swing/

            com/sun/java/swing/

            sun/swing/

The set of actions supported by this project are:

* Build Project:

  - Compiles Swing's source files and puts the class files under

    build/${platform}-${arch}/classes.

  - Generates swing.jar file under dist/lib/swing.jar

    This new jar file could be used to patch an existing JDK installation

    by using -Xbootclasspath/p:$MYSRC/dist/lib/swing.jar

* Generate Javadoc for Project

  - Generates the javadoc for the Swing source files,

  - The javadoc is generated under build/${platform}-${arch}/javadoc/swing.

* Run Project

  - Builds and runs the SampleTree demo.

* Debug Project

  - Builds and then runs the debugger on the SampleTree demo.

* Clean Project

  - Cleans the files created by this project under build, dist, and demo.

IMPORTANT NOTE

  Please make sure to follow carefully the governance rules documented at

  http://openjdk.dev.java.net/

KNOWN ISSUES

  When debugging the project, breakpoints set in SampleTree's code will be

  stopped at, but the editor display will not update correctly.  Breakpoints

  outside of the constructor work as expected.