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What developers talks about Integrated debugger for Java*/JNI Environments

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 11, 2007 at 5:22 am
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Recently I've got a chance to talk with several commercial VM engineer, and I would like to publish some summary of conversation: "I use Visual studio for native and Eclipse for java" "I would really like to be able to debug by going from JVM-code to Java-code and back" That would be more interesting if it would be [...]

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Debugger's role and its usage scenarios, some expanding to Java*/JNI world.

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 6, 2007 at 7:03 am
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Historically general mechanism to debug managed code with encapsulation or involving of unmanaged code is in using of two different debuggers (see http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jnidebug/index.html, http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2006/tools/TS-1011.pdf for details).  What engineers could expect from switching to single debugger scenario? For developers single debugger scenario is a comfortable environment with unified style of management of key-binding, macro definitions, scripts and so [...]

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Debugging concepts

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on December 5, 2007 at 4:54 am
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Traditionally we have several debugging concepts to choose out-of- and in- process debugging. Let’s start from in-process, as soon as I own debugger implementing in-process debugger implementation. There are several examples of in-process debugging in industry: printf-debugging (very powerful and helpful;) http://udrepper.livejournal.com/5018.html), kernels' and hypervisors' debuggers. In fact kernels and hypervisor debugger, has no really [...]

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Who is the owner of "Integrated debugger for Java/JNI Environments"?

By Vasily Levchenko (Intel) (4 posts) on October 12, 2007 at 5:49 am
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My name is Vasily Levchenko and that is my 1st blog on Intel dot com site. My first entry is about of my involving in "Integrated Debugger for Java/JNI environments" project ... I became the owner of this project when development had been was fairly completed and authors (Vitaly Provodin and Ivan Popov who were represented [...]

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