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Thu, 16 November 2006 21:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

I'm trying to turn on tracing in Eclipse, as described in
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/FAQ_How_do_I_use_the_platf orm_debug_tracing_facility%3F.

My plug-in includes trace output, and when I run in the debugger I can turn
on my tracing with the launch dialog and it all works great.

But I can't figure out how to get it to work outside of the debugger. The
instructions say I should create a .options file, containing the appropriate
key/value, and put it in the same directory as eclipse.exe; and then I
should launch eclipse with "-debug" on the command line.

Is that all it takes? Where should I expect to see the output show up? I'm
not seeing any output, and I know that my code getting called, so I must be
doing something wrong.

Thanks!

Re: turning on tracing? [message #310052 is a reply to message #310045]

Fri, 17 November 2006 08:37

Eclipse User

In theory that should work: -debug command line option eclipse should
just look for a .options file in the same directory as the eclipse.exe.
Then it spits the trace output to the command line.

You can remove the guesswork and save a lot of different settings if you
specify the file to the -debug command line.

Check out
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform_Command_Framework #Tracing_Option
for an example.

It might be that you must make sure you are using java.exe instead of
javaw.exe if you are on windows (no console).

Later,
PW

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