HotSpot development on Linux with NetBeans - Part 1

Here comes yet another step-by-step tutorial which explains how to fetch the OpenJDK sources, compile them and work with them inside the NetBeans IDE.

It focuses on building and running the different flavors (opt/debug, client/server JIT compiler, template/C++ interpreter) of the HotSpot VM on Linux/x86 and concludes with a short evaluation of NetBeans 6.0 as an development environment for HotSpot hacking.

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