Re: RFR: 8295884: Support for development with the Eclipse IDE [v2]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:07:12 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Eclipse is a popular and very well-known IDE in the world of Java 
>> development, utilized widely in many contexts, by beginners and experienced 
>> teams alike. Although a relatively lightweight IDE, it features surprisingly 
>> powerful indexing and code analysis capabilities, as well as useful tools, 
>> among which are make and Ant integration. While the tools it provides are 
>> not always as sophisticated as other IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA will likely come to 
>> mind as one such competitor), the simplicity of using it, as well as the 
>> reliability of this rugged IDE makes up greatly for the slightly less 
>> advanced tooling. Eclipse requires very little starting infrastructure in 
>> the workspace for all these features and indexing support as well, which 
>> makes it a good candidate for developing on the JDK.
>> 
>> This enhancement adds 4 extra targets to the make system for generating a 
>> basic Eclipse Workspace that provides almost full indexing support for the 
>> JDK, with varying levels as desired, from a minimalistic option only 
>> including the JVM's sources, to generating a workspace with both Java and 
>> C/C++ natures included, which allows for using Eclipse's ability to quickly 
>> swap between Java and C/C++ mode to work on both native and Java sources at 
>> the same time. Cross Compiling support is available, and in its entirety the 
>> change touches very little of the existing make system, barring its own 
>> Makefile within the ide subdirectory.
>> 
>> Indexing capabilities utilizing the enhancement:
>> <img width="960" alt="java" 
>> src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32636402/197784819-67ec7de4-7e27-4f33-b738-59b75a9e4403.PNG";>
>> <img width="787" alt="escape" 
>> src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32636402/197784843-df8621a8-7b0a-42da-86f4-3afb92de0f71.PNG";>
>
> Julian Waters has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains six additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge
>  - Formatting
>  - Whitespace
>  - Carriage Returns
>  - Documentation
>  - Implement Eclipse support

Will this work with jtreg test sources too? At least on Intellij those require 
a brittle intellij plugin.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10853