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Jingguo Yao
Jingguo Yao

Reputation: 8002

How to get the binary build and source code tarball for JDK 8?

A JDK installation includes a src.zip. But it does not contain all the source code files. For example, it does not have Unsafe.java. What I want is the source code which can be used to build JDK.

Since Oracle does not provide the source code for its JDK, I want to find the source code for OpenJDK. JDK 8 Update Releases Wiki contains the Mercurial repositories which I can get the source. But it is troublesome. First, I am not familiar with Mercurial. Second, Mercurial forest extension is used. So I wan to get the source code tarball which includes everything.

In Releases part of JDK 8 Update Releases Wiki, I find 8u232-b09 (GA), October 15th 2019 [Release] [Tag] [Binaries]:

  1. I can click Binaries to download the binary build.
  2. I can click Release to open https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-October/010452.html where I can find the tarball link https://openjdk-sources.osci.io/openjdk8/openjdk8u232-ga.tar.xz. Then I can use the tarball link to do the download.

Is my approach correct?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 397

Answers (1)

Ioannis Barakos
Ioannis Barakos

Reputation: 1369

You approach is correct as it downloads the sourcecode as a tarball.

You can also get the source code as git repository clone from GitHub https://github.com/openjdk/jdk .

Upvotes: 1

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