ATF / JSDT

[Dan Cotruta-2]

I hope I'm not being too dense, but here's my question.

I'm new to Eclipse, and I have tried to read up on this, but I think I missing a trick. ATF was (?is?) the 'old' way to get Javascript support in Eclipse. ATF's devs migrated to working on JSDT - and JSDT is the only current (centrally distributed) way of working with Javascript [I'm specifically excluding things like MyEclipse].

Now, ATF definitely had a 'proper' debugger for Javascript, with breakpoints, step-in/out and so forth. JSDT specifically says that it supports breakpoints - but all I can do is set a bookmark! I know this has been appraoched before, but someone please enlighten me - what is the deal with this?

Is there any way to get JSDT to do proper Javascript debugging? Is ATF available for Ganymede?

And I'm sorry, but Firebug is _not_ a reliable debugger.

Many thanks,

Dan

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[Phil Berkland]

JSDT does not support debugging (or breakpoints).
There are ATF plugins which add support for breakpoints within the JSDT editors.
Where did you see that JSDT supports breakpoints? We will fix that statement.
I do not think that ATF will work with Ganymede without being updated.

Phil Berkland
IBM Software Group Emerging Technologies
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I hope I'm not being too dense, but here's my question.

I'm new to Eclipse, and I have tried to read up on this, but I think I missing a trick. ATF was (?is?) the 'old' way to get Javascript support in Eclipse. ATF's devs migrated to working on JSDT - and JSDT is the only current (centrally distributed) way of working with Javascript [I'm specifically excluding things like MyEclipse].

Now, ATF definitely had a 'proper' debugger for Javascript, with breakpoints, step-in/out and so forth. JSDT specifically says that it supports breakpoints - but all I can do is set a bookmark! I know this has been appraoched before, but someone please enlighten me - what is the deal with this?

Is there any way to get JSDT to do proper Javascript debugging? Is ATF available for Ganymede?

And I'm sorry, but Firebug is _not_ a reliable debugger.

Many thanks,

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[Dan Cotruta-2]

Hey Phil,

Thanks for the reply!

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ATF/JSDT --> Says that breakpoint support is available (bullet points).

I'd be very interested in helping to port ATF to Ganymede, but I'm not sure where to start, or even if this is still an active project.
 
Some guidance on that would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Dan

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[Phil Berkland]

Sorry, the statement about breakpoints is technically correct, but misleading. It means that JSDT supports displaying breakpoint markers if a debugger is there to use them, not that JSDT does debugging using breakpoints. I will clarify it.
Direct questions about ATF to the atf-dev mailing list.

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[Dan Cotruta-2]

Cool, many thanks!

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