Re: [wtp-dev] Nashorn Debugging

[Harald Wellmann <hwellmann.de@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've now pushed a snapshot of my Nashorn experiments to GitHub:

    https://github.com/hwellmann/webtools.jsdt

Please see the README in bundles/org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.debug.nashorn for a brief description of the design ideas and a simple test case. The code is nothing but a spike and absolutely unpolished - I'd be very happy to get some feedback from the project team before proceeding any further on what might be the wrong track.

I'm not really sure if the current approach of a _javascript_ debug target acting as a facade for an underlying Java debug target is the best approach, but I can't think of an obvious alternative at the moment.

Somehow it feels like JDT is hiding a lot of JDI APIs I'd like to use, but this may be just my lack of expertise with JDT. At any rate, all the x-friends package exports both in JDT and jsdt.debug.core seem to be a bit of a code smell.

Next thing I'll try upgrading to Mars M6 and take a look at the JDT patch for the line location issue (bugzilla 462932).

Best regards,

Harald