[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: com.sun.jdi.Location from org.eclipse.debug

[Anil Samuel <anil.samuel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I got around this by

1. monitoring the vm eventqueue and handling the ClassPrepareEvent to 
get the Locations of the class
2. creating and enabling breakpoint selectively on these Locations.

Thanks Darin and jim.holmlund at sun.com &
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=646407&messageID=3807067

Anthos
Darin Wright wrote:
> Get the EventRequestManager from the VirtualMachine. Create a 
> BreakpointRequest from the event request manager at the desired Location. 
> See the Javadoc for JDI for more details.
>
>     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jpda/jdi/index.html
>
> Darin Wright
>
> "Anil T Samuel" <anil.samuel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:f86hi0$89v$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Using jdb I am able to stop by "stop at 
> > $Oracle.Procedure.DTP.PROCEDURE1:5" as seen below
> >
> > main[1] stop at $Oracle.Procedure.DTP.PROCEDURE1:5
> > Set breakpoint $Oracle.Procedure.DTP.PROCEDURE1:5
> > main[1] cont
> > Breakpoint hit: "thread=main", 
> > $Oracle.Procedure.DTP.PROCEDURE1.PROCEDURE1(), line=5 bci=5
> >
> > what will be the equivalent of this using com.sun.jdi.VirtualMachine ?
> >
> > Regards
> > Anthos
> > Darin Wright wrote:
> > > Nope. We don't expose the JDI implementation in the Java debugger. If you 
> > > look at the Java debugger's implementation of breakpoints, it has to do 
> > > various things to translate an IBreakpoint into a location (depeding if 
> > > the desired class is loaded in the target VM yet (you can only get 
> > > locations for loaded classes)).
> > >
> > > Darin Wright.
> > >
> > > "Anil T Samuel" <anil.samuel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> > > news:f7n0dn$1le$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to create a breakpoint, IBreakpoint, in a remote vm using
> > > > EventRequestManager.createBreakpointRequest(Location location). Is there 
> > > > any helper method or api to create a Location from a IBreakpoint ?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Anthos