Chitale, Sandip V writes: > I agree with you. > > In terms of features in debugger I would like to see - > > 1. fast update to different views > 2. better variables view (I would like to suggest Java based GUI for > this i.e. a treetable)
This is planned. > 3. storing and managing breakpoints Ditto. > 4. breakpoint grouping Not sure what this is. > 4. Different kinds of breakpoints > > i. conditional breakpoints This is really hard. It entails creating a Java expression parser to parse conditions. JDEbug has an extremely primitive parser. I started work on a JavaCC-based parser several years ago. It's source code is in the JDEE distribution. > ii. actions when the breakpoints are hit Specified how? > iii. method entry breakpoint (JPDA allows this) > iv. method exit breakpoint > > a. normal exit > b. abnormal exit (exception) > c. ability to see return value on the stack (even if it > was not > stored in some local variable). I am not sure if JDPA > allows this. I'll look into this. If it's supported by the JPDA, it should be easy to provide. > v. Class loading breakpoint > Ditto. - Paul
