What if we provide dummy tools.jar with other jars referenced via Class-Path attribute of manifest?
I'm not sure this will help, but I'll try it. Thanks. Ivan On 4/24/07, Alexey Varlamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/4/24, Ivan Popov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've run several experiments with JDI implementation from Eclipse and > was able to use it for running JDB debugger demo and Netbeans > debugger. However, there are several issues that should be solved. > > 1. Eclipse 3.0 provides quite independent JDI implementation, one can > use two separate jars from JDT runtime bundle: > > jdi.jar - JDI API interfaces > jdimodel.jar - JDI implementation > > But it corresponds to 1.4 and works not stable with Netbeans debugger, > so it is not the case. > > 2. In the newer Eclipse 3.2 and 3.3 JDI implementation corresponds to > 1.5 and works well with both JDB and Netbeans (except of a few issues > mentioned below). Unfortunately, it introduces dependencies on two > additional jars (for formatting error messages and NLS support): > > com.ibm.icu.base_3.6.0.20061215.jar - from com.ibm.icu.base bundle > org.eclipse.osgi_3.3.0.v20070321.jar - from RCP Runtime Binary bundle > > The first one is quite small and independent bundle available from > Eclipse download site and I think it's OK to add it to Harmony > together with JDI jars. For the second one an easy stub can be > implemented to eliminate this dependency. > > 3. All Java debuggers expect that JDI API is located in > JDK/lib/tools.jar and implicitly add it to classpath when debugger is > started. This means we need to repackage all classes from Eclipse's > jdi.jar to Harmony's tools.jar. I don't like this solution, but it > seems the only possible one. I hope there are no legal issues with > such repackage. All other jars can be added separately and loaded with > special class loader, similar to what is already implemented for > Eclipse compiler jar. What if we provide dummy tools.jar with other jars referenced via Class-Path attribute of manifest? > > 4. There are a few bugs in implementation of JDI connectors which > throw NPE when are used in JDB and Netbeans debuggers. I fixed this in > my experiments and fix is rather simple. I can submit bug to Eclipse > and attach this fix. I hope Eclipse folks can apply it quickly. > > If nobody objects I will proceed with items 2-4. > > Thanks. > Ivan >
