[Binah-devel] Update on eclipse debug plugin stuff

[Dexter A. <ve...@ia...>]

I spent some time this afternoon trying to get a simple debug plug-in 
running in eclipse that could create an event when a thread locked an 
object.

Unfortunately, I wasn't having much luck-- some functionality isn't as 
directly available as I'd like (such as being forced to use break points 
on method entry to catch locks, rather than an explicit event), but 
worse, now that I've been playing with it some, I'm running into 
IJavaDebugTarget.supportsMonitorInformation() always returning false! 
Ie, this JVM (Sun's 1.4 on Win32) doesn't work for tracing monitors with 
eclipse.  To test it, I tried playing with the "Threads and Monitors" 
debugging view, and it has the same problem.  This is clearly bad.  :-(

At this point, I'm more-or-less abandoning the plan of integrating 
tightly within the eclipse debugger.

I don't mean abandoning eclipse, just that the level of integration will 
be low-- you can visualize your code from an eclipse menu, but not as 
part of the normal eclipse debugging.  That way, we can drop down to 
straight JDI calls, which seem to work more reliably.

Has anybody made better or different progress on this?  Thoughts?

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