where to find the source in openjdk

Question

Hi I installed openjdk1.6 in my machine using yum.

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel

it is installed in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk/

But I could not find the java source of the classes.

What I'm trying to do is just edit some original java code, recompile and play with it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to manually download it using mercurial , first of all get Mercurial Forest Extension and then clone the whole tree

hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6

Building it is a bit tricky, here is the build howto for JDK7, should be applicable for JDK6 too.

Answer 2

When you install a package from yum, you're installing a binary. It doesn't necessarily download the source. You'll probably have to download the source from the website (or a repository) directly.

http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/