what is the debugging story for nashorn?

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

On 2013-01-22, at 6:41 PM, Darren Cruse <darren.cruse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys been reading all I can find, but haven't actually played with
> nashorn yet, and I have questions about debugging/debuggers and nashorn -
> namely:
> 
> a.  I know NetBeans is already supporting javascript debugging using
> nashorn - but how about Eclipse?
> 
> (e.g. is nashorn by chance supporting the standard java debugger protocol
> such that eclipse support should be easy?)
> 
> And on a related note:
> 
> b.  Will remote debugging be supported out of the box?
> 
> (we're doing a lot of amazon cloud stuff these days I feel like remote
> debugging is incredibly important)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Darren


I posted a library at the last JVM language summit that provided a debugging API for plugin support.  We have no plans for debugging for JDK8 but will likely see debuggers popping up after it is shipped.