This is great news!
Thanks!

Attila Szegedi wrote:
Just a heads up that I got a green light to publish my debugger implementation. I'm sorting out the source code now, will keep you posted.

Attila.

On 2009.06.03., at 17:14, Simon Kaegi wrote:

Attila,

Add me to the list of people who would really like to see this.
I work on the Eclipse project and am currently working on support for
writing plugins in JavaScript/Rhino. We really need debug support and had
been looking at JSR45. I'm about ready to throw in the towel with that
approach and look more closely at coming up with a remote API to allow use of Rhino's interpreter mode debug stuff. It would be great to not re-invent
the wheel here and ideally build on something by someone in the know.

I've also been chatting with our debug folk and it sounds like we could do
something very interesting in the debug UI where we have a split Java /
JavaScript model that's smart enough to know which language we're in at
various points on the stack.

Anyway, it would be great to see what you or others have done on a remote
api to the debugger.
-Simon

"Attila Szegedi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Been there, done that just two months ago (it's a remote debugger with a
command-line interface). It's moderately involved... I did it as a  day
job project at my company, so can't provide source code (and it has some
proprietary parts anyway, particularly the definition of a  script
execution instance, as well as support for debugging across continuation
restarts). For what's it worth, the solution I created  has a separate
server side and client side, and I created a simple  network protocol
where the parties pass JSON messages through a TCP  connection, so it
would be possible to use the protocol and fit a GUI  at the other end
instead of the CLI.

If there's enough interest, I might try to strip out the proprietary
stuff and obtain permission to release it as open source (the company is
fortunately fairly friendly to open source).

Attila.

On 2009.05.01., at 23:15, SCWells72 wrote:

We're embedding Rhino in our system as an extensibility tool and
that's going very well.  I imagine it would be very useful for
extenders of our system to be able to debug their scripts in a high-
level symbolic debugger.  I found the Rhino debugger here:

http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html

but it looks like that's intended to be used against a script file or
some other direct input.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using this debugger
against an embedded Rhino engine successfully.  I imagine it's too
much to ask for remote debugging, but minimally if I could tell the
app to bring up the debugger window when (certain) scripts are
executing and allow me to set breakpoints, step through execution,
etc.

I searched the Rhino pages, this forum, and Google in general and
didn't find a clear answer.  I apologize if this has been asked/
answered before.

Thanks!
Scott
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