For (4) I've submitted bug to Eclipse and attached patch: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=184211
Thanks. Ivan On 4/24/07, Ivan Popov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. 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
