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1199482SrdivackyWorking on the "langtools" workspace using NetBeans. 2199482Srdivacky 3199482SrdivackyThis directory (make/netbeans) contains NetBeans projects that 4199482Srdivackyallow you to work on the various tools using the NetBeans IDE. 5199482Srdivacky 6199482SrdivackyNetBeans 5.0 or later is required and sufficient to use these 7199482Srdivackyprojects. This is different from other projects in OpenJDK, 8199482Srdivackywhich requires version 6.0 or later. 9199482Srdivacky 10199482SrdivackyThe following projects are provided: 11199482Srdivacky 12199482Srdivackycompiler: for working on the compiler, javac 13199482Srdivackyjavadoc: for working on the documentation tool, javadoc 14203955Srdivackydoclets: for working on the standard doclets used by the 15203955Srdivacky documentation tool, javadoc 16199482Srdivackyjavah: for working on the C header tool, javah 17199482Srdivackyjavap: for working on the disassembler, javap 18199482Srdivackyapt: for working on the annotation processing tool, apt. 19234353Sdim Note that this is just provided for completeness; 20234353Sdim the tool has been superceded by new features in javac, 21199482Srdivacky and work on apt itself is discouraged. 22205408Srdivacky 23205408SrdivackyHowever, any tool can be worked on from any project; the only difference 24205408Srdivackybetween these projects is the behavior of the standard NetBeans actions, 25205408Srdivackyso that "Build" in the compiler project will build the compiler, etc. 26205408Srdivacky 27205408Srdivacky 28205408Srdivacky 29226633Sdim