Debug Info in class files

[Ben Evans]

Hi Miten,

You may also want to think about joining the Adopt OpenJDK project - a
number of our members may well be interested in use cases like this.

Thanks,

Ben
On 26 Dec 2012 12:13, "miten mehta" <imiten at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was using eclipse ide to remote debug tomcat web app which used oracle
> jdk 7.  The ide was unable to open source for kerberos classes.  I learned
> that not all source is available in src.zip of oracle jdk.
>
> I then tried to use openjdk source while debugging against oracle jdk but
> then I observed few things like for certain classes the local variables
> info was not available (may be because the classes for them were not
> compiled with -g option to add debug info).  Now eclipse pulls up source
> for those kerberos/gss related classes but I cannot really get to debug
> what ever I want since lot of information is not available.
>
> how can I use openjdk to resolve this issue since I know there are
> instructions to install/build open jdk on debian but then will the class
> have debug info unlike oracle one ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Miten.
>