[RVM-549] Initial support for OpenJDK class library - JIRA

Details

This issue will track work in adding support for OpenJDK as a class library provider for Jikes RVM.

Quick status:

code is on the branch RVM-549-OpenJDK in the main repository
there is still a lot of work to be done before the branch can be merged: not even pre-commit passes.
A suitable next step would be to rewrite the build file to download and build OpenJDK 6 (or possibly IcedTea 6 because OpenJDK 6 has no security support anymore) rather than downloading binaries. An investigation is necessary to determine whether building OpenJDK/IcedTea 6 from source is viable for Mac OS.

blocks

RVM-1136 Support building with JDK9

depends upon

RVM-1065 Replace fields and methods of the class in the bootimage

RVM-991 openjdk fixes

is blocked by

RVM-1163 Make enough progress on implementation of JMM to cover common cases

relates to

RVM-952 RVMClass.resolve must consider method.getExceptionTypes(), library Exceptions may be used to test jdbc support level