[news.eclipse.technology.ldt] Debugging DSLs: possible synergy with the

[Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm the project lead of Lepido, a project aimed at providing tools for 
Apache Cocoon [1], currently in the proposal phase [2].

Cocoon is web application framework based on XML processing pipelines 
that uses a number of interpreted languages, either standard ones such 
as XSLT or ECMAscript, or specific ones like sitemap or jxtemplate.

An important goal of Lepido is to provide a debugger for these languages 
and we already have outlined some rough ideas of what the architecture 
of this debugger could be (see the "Architecture" and "Debugger" 
chapters in the proposal). Basically, the idea is to have a debugger UI 
talking through the network to a common debugger runtime that accepts 
language-specific drivers, thus providing a unified debugging view of 
the various interpreted languages that are used within an application.

Do you think this is something that could be of interest to LDT? If yes, 
we (the Lepido project) would be happy to collaborate with LDT on this 
subject.

Sylvain

[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-lepido/

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Sylvain Wallez                        Anyware Technologies
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Apache Software Foundation Member     Research & Technology Director