1 Working on Swing Using the NetBeans IDE
   2 
   3 This Swing NetBeans project allows a developer interested in making changes to
   4 and/or fixing bugs in swing to modify, build, run and test swing in a
   5 standalone manner as well as generating the javadoc for the swing classes.
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   7 README FIRST
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   9   make/netbeans/README to get started with NetBeans IDE and OpenJDK, and
  10   working with the OpenJDK NetBeans projects.
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  12 WORKING WITH SWING
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  14 Swing doesn't contain native code; it's pure java. You don't need to
  15 have all the Java SE sources to work on Swing but just the following subset:
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  17             make/netbeans/ 
  18             javax/swing/
  19             com/sun/swing/
  20             com/sun/java/swing/
  21             sun/swing/
  22 
  23 The set of actions supported by this project are:
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  25 * Build Project:
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  27   - Compiles Swing's source files and puts the class files under
  28     build/${platform}-${arch}/classes.
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  30   - Generates swing.jar file under dist/lib/swing.jar
  31 
  32     This new jar file could be used to patch an existing JDK installation
  33     by using -Xbootclasspath/p:$MYSRC/dist/lib/swing.jar
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  35 * Generate Javadoc for Project
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  37   - Generates the javadoc for the Swing source files,
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  39   - The javadoc is generated under build/${platform}-${arch}/javadoc/swing.
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  41 * Run Project
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  43   - Builds and runs the SampleTree demo.
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  45 * Debug Project
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  47   - Builds and then runs the debugger on the SampleTree demo.
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  49 * Clean Project
  50 
  51   - Cleans the files created by this project under build, dist, and demo.
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  53 IMPORTANT NOTE
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  55   Please make sure to follow carefully the governance rules documented at
  56   http://openjdk.dev.java.net/
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  58 KNOWN ISSUES
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  60   When debugging the project, breakpoints set in SampleTree's code will be
  61   stopped at, but the editor display will not update correctly.  Breakpoints
  62   outside of the constructor work as expected.