Re: [ptp-user] ppe.hpct plugin - PTP 4.0/PTP 5.0 API changes

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christoph
That may work. There was code we got
which supported opening .viz files on the local system, but since that
was not the model we wanted to support for our product, that was not tested
and I may have broken some of that support in getting remote support to
work.

In general, the HPCT plugin you have
will not be able to work with remote or synchronized projects in Eclipse
3.7/PTP 5.0 due to API changes. You still should be able to set the communication
model to RSE and fill in the rest of the info in the HPCT preferences panel,
then use the RSE path. That means there are two separate connection paths
to the remote machine, RSE for HPCT and remote tools for PTP but I don't
think that breaks anything.
Dave



From:      
 Christoph Pospiech
<Christoph.Pospiech@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 Dave Wootton/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
Cc:      
 Achim Boemelburg <BOEMELB@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Holger Holthoff <HOLTHOFF@xxxxxxxxxx>, "" <ptp-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 12/05/2011 10:38 AM
Subject:    
   Re: ppe.hpct
plugin - PTP 4.0/PTP 5.0 API changes

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On Monday, December 05, 2011 15:56:35 Dave Wootton
wrote:
> I tried that this morning, and when I tried to enable the HPCT service
> provider as a profiling service for the synchronized project, I got
an
> AbstractMethodError exception (traceback below) that I think is related
to
> the API changes.
> 
> That version of the HPCT plugin was tested with Eclipse 3.6, and PTP
4.0,
> and needs to continue to work with those levels. I'm not sure how
feasible
> it is to make it work as well with PTP 5.0 or ow feasible it is to
modify
> PTP 5.0 so this plugin works.

Dave,

thanks for the reply. As I have learned by separate email communication,
 
binary instrumentation isn't supported anyway on the target platform. The
main 
functionality that remains is reading and visualizing *.viz files.

My current plan would be that I use the HPCT plugin only on the local project
and rely on the feature that the synchronized project replicates the *.viz
files to the local file system. I still need to test whether this really
works 
and that the HPCT plugin doesn't get confused about this. But at least
I would 
expect that I leave the PTP 4.0 API from the HPCT plugin alone that way,
so I 
can safely run it with PTP 5.0.

What do you think ?
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