Eclipse Debug Project
Debug Project Overview
The Eclipse Debug Project is not a single project unto itself, it is in fact comprised of two distinct sub-projects: Platform Debug and JDT Debug.
Platform Debug defines interfaces for a language independent debug model which abstract common debugging features of many languages, whereas, JDT Debug provides an implementation of platform debug providing Java debugging support and works with any JDPA-compliant target Java VM.
Both Platform and JDT Debug are built into Eclipse and ship as part of the Eclipse SDK.
Debug Components
As mentioned the Debug Project is broken down into two smaller sub-projects, each with its own set of committers, projects goals and plans, bug categories and mailing lists.
Name Description Platform Debug The language independent debug model JDT Debug The Java implementation of the platform debug component
New and Noteworthy
The JDT debug component is very responsive to new ideas, feature requests and bug reports. The following is a list of some of the newest and more interesting additions to the component.
For a complete listing of new and noteworthy entries check the New and Noteworthy page.
Up To The Minute
- Our manual testing programs our now available for download. Happy testing!
- The debug utils, which helps in verifying bugs, is now available via update site (with p2 metadata) at www.eclipse.org/eclipse/debug/update/
- We are presenting two tutorials at EclipseCon 2008. The presentations are available for both Debug Platform: The Basics and Debug Platform: Custom Integration. More information can be found on the Documents page along with exercises.
- To help new contributors, we have created a project set file containing all of the projects needed to get started with debug coding. There is also a project set file for 3.3.1 maintenance.
- Platform Debug overall 3.4 plan
- JDT Debug overall 3.4 plan
- Platform Debug fixes (so far) for 3.4.x
- JDT Debug fixes (so far) for 3.4.x
- Debug 3.4 Test Matrix

