[micro-manager-general] Eclipse - Debug Environment

[Marco F. <fla...@op...>]

Hello guys,

I’m fighting to create a clean plugin development environment which consists of


  *   Windows 10 64 bit
  *   Open JDK 13.0.1
  *   ImageJ 1.52r
  *   MicroManager 1.4.22



  *   Eclipse Photon 4.8.0

In Eclipse:
We are using an external build configuration (separate build.xml) to generate the plugin jar-file.
This works nicely.

For debugging purposes I just added the ImageJ source directory as an additional link for the ij library.
And I added an additional debug configuration (Main class: ij.ImageJ, Program arguments: -debug)

Unfortunately this quick approach did not work – after starting our plugin it seems that ImageJ itself runs
Inside of some kind of debug loop: inside the log window I can only see key press events loggings but our
Pugin does not continue.

I found the general approach for debugging purposes to start a separate ImageJ project in Eclipse and
To add a separate project inside workspace for own plugins.
Since we are using git and have several different plugins I’m wondering if this the only approach to have
a nice debugging environment.

Can anyone provide alternative ideas?
Otherwise we have to restructure our git repository dramatically ☹

Best regards
Marco