How to Write an Eclipse Debugger
August 27, 2004
CVS
Debugging
Darin Wright
IBM
Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Eclipse Foundation
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.