Howdy-


Slava Pestov, the jEdit guy, recently posted this entry.

The HotSpot source code is a bad joke
http://www.jroller.com/page/slava/20050102

I tried to build Sun's JDK a few years back. It was crap. I can
vouche for some of Slava's observations. Such as the preprocessor
stuff. (For Java source code too!)

I had hoped that Sun's renewed emphasis on quality would have improved
the source tree. I guess they subscribe to the "test your way to
quality" school of thought.

I'd hate to get elbow deep into a monster JDK refactoring project only
to get bogged down in the private packages (e.g. sun.*).


Cheers, Jason Aaron Osgood / Seattle WA