https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/thomas-darimont/Articles written by Thomas Darimont on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usWed, 19 Jul 2023 08:25:23 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/jdk-safari-how-to-find-hidden-tools-in-the-jdk/Wed, 19 Jul 2023 08:25:23 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/jdk-safari-how-to-find-hidden-tools-in-the-jdk/<p>We all have some hobby, be it sports, fishing, playing games or building compilers.</p> <p>One of my hobbies is regularly searching the JDK for new Java classes with executable main methods.</p> <p>Many years ago, during my forays through the JDK sources, I first encountered a class with a main-method I didn&rsquo;t know about. That was in 2007 (oh boy).</p> <p>The class was Class2HTML from the BCEL (Bytecode Engineering Library) library embedded in the JDK back then.</p>