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Duke hacking Hack on the JDK itself, right here in the growing OpenJDK Community: Browse the code on the web, get a source bundle or clone a Mercurial repository to make a local copy, read the tutorial on how to build and hack on the code with the NetBeans IDE, and contribute a patch to fix a bug, enhance an existing component, or define a new feature.
 
Announcements
2008/08/12 New Project approved: BSD Port
2008/08/12 New Project approved: Zero-Assembler Port
2008/08/01 Project Proposal: BSD Port
2008/08/01 Project Proposal: Zero-assembler port of OpenJDK
2008/07/15 New Project approved: Type Annotations
2008/07/15 New Project approved: Compiler Grammar
2008/07/01 New Project approved: Common VM Interface
2008/06/12 Project Proposal: Antlr parser for javac
 
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