On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Milinda Pathirage < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Denis, > Is there anyway that we can set global breakpoint for a process. If that is > there we can first set global breakpoint for processes and when we invoke > the process using sample input the created instance must come to that > breakpoint and suspend until user resume it from that point. Hi, Adding a global breakpoint to a process is workable in ODE. And I tried it. But adding a global breakpoint would effect to all the instances being executed in that moment. That's why I'm trying to bind a breakpoint to the specific instance. I am not sure > about the correct way to do it, but I think BPEL debugging must be same as > normal debugging we done using Java IDEs or etc.. Here are some documents > from Open-ESB. Thanks for documents, and I'll look in to them. Cheers, Denis > > > Testing And Debugging BPEL Processes: > > http://wiki.open-esb.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=TestingAndDebuggingBPELProcesses > BPEL Debugger Tutorial: > http://wiki.open-esb.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=BPELDebuggerTutorial > > Can you have look and propose a better way for our we based thing. Because > I > think that this must be same as normal debugging. I'll study Open ESB thing > little bit and let you know my ideas ASAP. > > thanks > Milinda > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Denis Weerasiri <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Matthieu Riou <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Denis Weerasiri <[email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm interested in implementing a interactive debugging tool for > WS-BPEL > > > > developers on Apache ODE which enables to set breakpoints, and > > > > watch/inspect > > > > instance variables as GSOC project. > > > > > > > > > Sweet! Really good idea :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > These days I'm developing a WS-BPEL status tracking tool which > generate > > > an > > > > SVG flow diagram based on the BPEL code, and view the instance > variable > > > > values and the activity details of the running instances. I used the > > ODE > > > > Management API for that. But it seems that ODE doesn't provide any > API > > > for > > > > handling breakoints. > > > > Please let me know whether there is any API or some tool already > > > developed > > > > for handling breakpoint functionality in ODE. > > > > As well I'm clueless of the capacity of this project idea, whether > it's > > > > possible to achieve. > > > > Or if there is any other interresting ideas for GSOC under Apache ODE > > > > project please let me know. > > > > > > > > > It is possible as it's a feature that used to exist back in the days > when > > > ODE was still called PXE and was developed by Intalio only. Debugging > had > > > been developed for Netbeans by a third party. > > > > > > Since then, even if it's never really been tested, I've been very > careful > > > to > > > not remove this code and keep it up-to-date with the different > > refactoring > > > we've done, thinking we'll probably revive this feature sooner or > later. > > So > > > even if it's probably buggy, most of the code is still present and > should > > > be > > > operational. > > > > > > So if you check the InstanceManagement interface [1], you'll see > > > suspend(iid) and resume(iid) methods, which is a start. Those are > > > implemented by the DebuggerSupport class [2], which is useful to look > at > > > but > > > is mostly internal API (external tooling shouldn't use it directly). > > > Instead > > > those methods should be used through BpelManagementFacadeImpl that > > > delegates > > > to DebuggerSupport. You'll find all the usual suspects: > > > getGlobalBreakpoints, addActivityBreakpoint, removeBreakpoint, ... For > > the > > > moment, even though those methods are on BpelManagementFacadeImpl like > > all > > > others of the management API, they're not accessible remotely yet. But > > that > > > wouldn't too hard to add. > > > > > > I think that should be enough information to get you started but don't > > > hesitate to ask if you have any other additional question or problems. > > > > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to add an activity breakpoint to an instance. > > But from the BpelManagementFacadeImpl, it provides a > > method(addActivityBreakpoint) to add an activity break point using the > > instance id as the input parameter. > > > > should this method be invoked according to the following sequence. > > 1. Create an instance and suspend it as soon as it get created. > > 2. Then invoke the $subject method to add the breakpoint. ? > > > > Because to get an instance id the process should be instantiated. So > adding > > a breakpoint to an already started instance does not make any sense. > > > > Regards, > > Denis > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Matthieu > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ode/trunk/bpel-api/src/main/java/org/apache/ode/bpel/pmapi/InstanceManagement.java > > > [2] > > > > > > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ode/trunk/engine/src/main/java/org/apache/ode/bpel/engine/DebuggerSupport.java > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Denis Weerasiri. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Milinda Pathirage > Senior Software Engineer & Project Lead; WSO2 BPS; http://wso2.org/bps > WSO2 <http://wso2.org/bps%0AWSO2> Inc.; http://wso2.com > E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] > Blog: http://mpathirage.com >
