Milan Zimmermann writes: > > J�rgen Jatzkowski writes: > > > Hi, > ... > > Paul Kinnucan writes: > > > > No. However, you should be aware that JDEbug is of alpha quality. > > It has not received much attention over the last two years because > > JDE users seemed more interested in other things like Ant support, > > hierarchical projects, and field and method completion. > > > > I am now starting to devote most of my time to debugger support > > so the situation should improve. My first priority is to provide > > solid support for jdb because jdb is a more mature, though less > > capable, debugger. I then plan to work on JDEbug. > > I was wondering what % of people here use jdb vs JDEBug (not that I would > want my personal preference to JDEBug to affect your priorities). JDEBug, > even with some the quirks, was the main reason I started using JDE as a > "full-circle" development environment, apart from using emacs to edit Java > files. I am glad the debugging environment will improve. > > Are there some features of your "near-future" jdb changes that will affect > JDEBug immediately as well? (I am guessing auto-save of break point could be The near term improvements will be
* jdb menu always appears on source buffer * breakpoint requests are highlighted in source buffer * breakpoint manager--a dialog buffer that displays all breakpoints with checkboxes for deleting and saving them selectively * debug toolbar--this will use the native GUI toolbar on versions of Emacs that support it and a separate window with button widgets on versions of Emacs that don't support a native toolbar * value of local variable at point is automatically displayed in tooltip on Emacsen that support tooltips or minibuffer (emulates a tool tip). * elimination of any dependency on gud (this dependency was crippling further development of the jdb interface) * replacing gud with the JDE's own object-oriented generalized debugger interface. This will allow both jdb and JDEbug to have a common user interface and inherit common functionality such as breakpoint management and tooltip display of variables The next beta release (few days off) will contain some of this additional functionality and I hope to release additional features at a more rapid pace as I have completed the object-oriented infrastructure required to make it happen. - Paul
