| <article link="how-to.html"> |
| <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> |