Sergiy Temnikov wrote:
Hi,
We are working on a new application server that uses WebKit for
server-side JavaScript execution (and remote JavaScript debugging
too). ... For example, the first thing we had to
deal with is the JS debugger. Debugger interface is defined in
JavaScriptCore but its implementation lives in WebCore. Most of the
debugger's implementation is abstract except for the part which sends
event notifications to pages and frames objects which are GUI
dependent and so can not be used in a faceless server application. So
we basically copied the source of the existing debugger, commented
out GUI related calls and added some stuff to transform it into a
debugger which can be controlled remotely over the network. I would
be happy to contribute to the WebKit project to add a layer of
abstraction to the existing debugger implementation to cut its
dependence on GUI and move it to JavaScriptCore from WebCore's
inspector.
It would be interesting to see this. Open a bug and contribute a patch.
There's two reasons I think this is interesting:
- would be useful for embedded clients. For instance, if this is the
current state-of-the-art for debugging Palm's WebOS apps, which are (in
my understanding) running in WebKit - http://is.gd/4RKuh - then a remote
debug interface would be incredibly useful, assuming you had a nice client.
- just cleaning up the interfaces between the debugger and debugging
clients to begin with would probably be useful.
--
Patrick Mueller - http://muellerware.org
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