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<title>How to Write an Eclipse Debugger</title>
<date>August 27, 2004</date>
<category>CVS</category>
<category>Debugging</category>
<author>
<name>Darin Wright</name>
<company>IBM</company>
</author>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</name>
<company>Eclipse Foundation</company>
</author>
<description>
One of the major tasks of adding a new language to an
Eclipse-based IDE is debugging support. A debugger needs to
start and stop the program being debugged, suspend and resume,
single-step, manage breakpoints and watch points, and so on.
This article explains the Eclipse Platform debug framework and
steps through a simple, yet illustrative, example of adding
debug support for a new language.
</description>
</article>