[jbosstools-dev] Handy Plugin - debug another eclipse

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

sounds cool....how do I enable it ? And is it only for PDE or usable in general ?

I could see the use of that elsewhere than just PDE.

-max

> Hi all...
>
> So this past week when I was running 4 different eclipses at once to
> determine the differences between wtp 2.0.1 and wtp 2.0.2 in deploying
> nested archives (the seam bug), I developed a quick plugin to be able to
> add one eclipse's source to source lookup.
>
> The reason I made this is because the current source-lookup options were
> absolute crap. Adding a folder is designated for a folder of solely
> source files. Adding an archive or external archive is the same. There
> was no option to search through a nested folder for all source files.
> And when running in one eclipse and debugging the *same instance*, you
> could of course use the project which allows you to search all plugins.
>
> This becomes most useful when using one eclipse to debug an *older* (or
> newer) version with completely different source. That's basically the
> use case. Marshall says he's used it a few times already.
>
> I added it to svn:
> jbosstools/trunk/labs/plugins/org.jboss.tools.labs.pde.sourceprovider
>
> There's no binary in svn yet and it's a little rudimentary =P  It
> basically just searches a root folder (the eclipse installation) for any
> zip file that ends in "src.zip".  Then it delegates to a bunch of
> regular external archive source containers for those individual paths.
>
> Future enhancements if I get annoyed enough may be to allow you to add
> any ant-type pattern matching.  Suggestions are welcome.
>
> Again, I found it to be very very handy and Marshall says he's used it
> as well.
>
> - Rob Stryker
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