Hello Reviewers,
As part of the OpenJDK review processes, and the next Java SE 8u20
release, the OpenJDK 8 nroff files for Java tools are up for review,
which is available here as a zip file:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rgallard/openjdk_nroff_may_2014.zip
Please provide your feedback by *Thursday, May 29, 2014*.
The following sections describe what kinds of review comments we're
looking for and what has changed for Java SE 8u20. Please contact us if
you have any questions.
* Scope of Review
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* Provide Feedback
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* How to View a Man Page
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* What's Changed
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* Summary of Changes
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Scope of Review
Please provide a sanity check of content as opposed to reviewing the
nroff markup itself.
A line-by-line comparison between the html and nroff versions is not needed.
Provide Feedback
Please indicate your approval and provide feedback by e-mail by
*Thursday, May 29, 2014***.
All feedback will be triaged. Severe technical inaccuracies and other
small bugs will be fixed. Due to Java SE 8u20 release plan deadlines,
bugs will be filed for large scale changes and will most likely be
handled in a future update release.
How To View A Man Page
1.
Download the |openjdk_nroff_may_2014.zip| file to a directory of
your choice. (The exact zip file name will vary depending upon the
exact man page bundle and creation date.)
2.
Open a terminal window. Change to the directory that contains the
zip file.
3.
Extract the contents of the zip file as follows:
$ unzip openjdk_nroff_may_2014.zip
This creates a sub-directory named openjdk_nroff_may_2014 in the
current directory.
4.
Change directory to |openjdk_nroff_may_2014| as follows:
$ cd openjdk_nroff_may_2014
5.
View a man page with a command of the following form:
$ man -M man <page name>
For example, to view the javap man page, run the following command:
$ man -M man javap
Notes
*
(Linux and Mac only.) The -t option to the man command will generate
typeset output in PostScript format and send it to stdout:
$ man -M man -t javap > javap.ps
PostScript can be displayed using Preview (on Mac) and by the Gnome
Document Viewer (Linux/Gnome). (On Solaris, the man -t option will
send the output to a printer, which might not be what you want.)
*
If bullets render as a funny character, set the remote character set
to UTF-8. For example, if you are using PuTTY, an SSH and telnet
client, you can specify the remote character set by selecting from
the context menu *Change Settings... > Window > Translation > Remote
character set > UTF-8*.
What's Changed
* Technical content changes related to JDK 8 features have been made.
These changes have already been reviewed by the engineer responsible
for each feature.
* HTML documentation for Java tools has also been generated, which has
the same content as the nroff files up for review, and which will be
available on download.java.net.
Summary of Changes
The following lists significant changes made to the Java tool nroff
pages for this release as well as the engineer who reviewed the content.
javac
JDK-8042840 (opened by Omair Majid): Duplicated code in javac man page
JDK-8038427 (Erik Costlow): JDK 8's javac does not list -source 8 ...
also made changes to the -target option
javafxpackager
JDK-8042342 Renamed to javapackager (Danno Ferrin)
JDK-8033610, Update info on packager for 8u20 (and other deployment
information)
javapackager
New page (as a result of javafxpackager being renamed)
java
JDK-8033606: Experimental options related to Restricted Transactional
Memory, (Vladimir Kozlov)
JDK-8033604: String deduplication, (Per Lidén)
Additional information for UseAES hardware supportability.
JDK-8033103 (David Holmes), JDK-8042149 (Vladimir Kozlov): Various
fixes. emoved the option UseBoundThreads, Better categorized options, in
particular, HotSpot Server VM, Advanced JIT Compiler Options, and
Advanced Runtime Options.
JDK-8039398 (opened by Staffan Friberg; verified by Filipp Zhinkin)
Spelling errors in GC print flags
JDK-8032663 Retire some rarely-used GC combinations: Moved all
CMSIncremental options to the Deprecated section
Changes to Java Man pages for AES flags.
Additional information for AESIntrinsics
Additional information for bug JDK-8034904
javap
Added a link to jdeps (Mandy Chung)
jmc
JDK-8037401: Minor changes
Thank you,
The Java SE 8 Documentation Team
