==> Robert Field writes:
==> >
==> > Hi folks,
==> >
==> > The new JDE functionality "JDE-bug" is based on top of
==> > the Java(tm) Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA). Currently,
==> > the only version that is available is RC1 which can be
==> > downloaded from the Java Developers Connection (JDC) at:
==> >
==> > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jpda/index.html
==> >
==> > If you aren't already a member of the JDC you will need
==> > to join, but its free.
==> >
==> > We have FCS bits ready - which are actually different from
==> > RC1 by only one tiny bug fix and some doc clean-up. All
==> > that remains is red-tape, like which site does it go on.
==> > Hopefully it will be on java.sun.com (at which point it
==> > will be pulled from the JDC).
It is on java.sun.com now:
http://java.sun.com/products/jpda
==> > In any case its free. We
==> > are trying to make it redistributable, so people won't
==> > have to download from a Sun site - I'll send more mail if we
==> > get that. JPDA will be merged into the next release of the
==> > Java SDK (the kit formerly known as the JDK).
==>
==> I don't suppose this is jdk1.3? Or jdk1.3.1? Or something else?
Yes, 1.3 - of which you can download the beta now (on the JDC).
The beta already includes JPDA.
==> When the merge does take place, will the native libraries dt_socket
==> and jdwp be found in, for example, .../jre/lib/sparc/lib*.so ?
They are in the SDK (formerly JDK) but not the JRE, e.g:
lib/sparc/libjdwp.so
==> Thanks,
==>
==> -pmr
-Robert
