Also, any thoughts on http://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/DebuggerProtocol
"Simon Kaegi" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Attila, > > Add me to the list of people who would really like to see this. > I work on the Eclipse project and am currently working on support for > writing plugins in JavaScript/Rhino. We really need debug support and had > been looking at JSR45. I'm about ready to throw in the towel with that > approach and look more closely at coming up with a remote API to allow use > of Rhino's interpreter mode debug stuff. It would be great to not > re-invent the wheel here and ideally build on something by someone in the > know. > > I've also been chatting with our debug folk and it sounds like we could do > something very interesting in the debug UI where we have a split Java / > JavaScript model that's smart enough to know which language we're in at > various points on the stack. > > Anyway, it would be great to see what you or others have done on a remote > api to the debugger. > -Simon > > "Attila Szegedi" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:mailman.292.1241256119.22264.dev-tech-js-engine-rh...@lists.mozilla.org... >> Been there, done that just two months ago (it's a remote debugger with a >> command-line interface). It's moderately involved... I did it as a day >> job project at my company, so can't provide source code (and it has some >> proprietary parts anyway, particularly the definition of a script >> execution instance, as well as support for debugging across continuation >> restarts). For what's it worth, the solution I created has a separate >> server side and client side, and I created a simple network protocol >> where the parties pass JSON messages through a TCP connection, so it >> would be possible to use the protocol and fit a GUI at the other end >> instead of the CLI. >> >> If there's enough interest, I might try to strip out the proprietary >> stuff and obtain permission to release it as open source (the company is >> fortunately fairly friendly to open source). >> >> Attila. >> >> On 2009.05.01., at 23:15, SCWells72 wrote: >> >>> We're embedding Rhino in our system as an extensibility tool and >>> that's going very well. I imagine it would be very useful for >>> extenders of our system to be able to debug their scripts in a high- >>> level symbolic debugger. I found the Rhino debugger here: >>> >>> http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/debugger.html >>> >>> but it looks like that's intended to be used against a script file or >>> some other direct input. >>> >>> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using this debugger >>> against an embedded Rhino engine successfully. I imagine it's too >>> much to ask for remote debugging, but minimally if I could tell the >>> app to bring up the debugger window when (certain) scripts are >>> executing and allow me to set breakpoints, step through execution, >>> etc. >>> >>> I searched the Rhino pages, this forum, and Google in general and >>> didn't find a clear answer. I apologize if this has been asked/ >>> answered before. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Scott >> > > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-rhino mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-rhino
