[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Debugging deadlocks.

[Jared Burns <jared_burns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good question. :)

We tested the support for this with many VMs and all but 1 VM (an IBM VM) 
answered "no" to the JDWP query for monitor support.

- Jared

Genady wrote:

> How can tools such as JProbe to get such information ?
> 
> Genady
> 
> Jared Burns wrote:
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>>To expand a bit on what Jed said, we've explored a "locks and monitors"
>>view, but we weren't able to find a VM that supported the required debug
>>queries well.
>>
>>If we knew that there was a VM out there which supported the debug queries
>>for locks and monitors, we'd release support for it.
>>
>>- Jared
>>
>>Omry Yadan wrote:
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>>>Eclipse support locks debugging?
>>>can I see the owner of each lock (like in JBuilder) ?
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