Subj : Rhino debugger
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Jon Brisbin
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:20 pm

Has anyone used the debugger in an "embedded" mode before? I'm trying to 
use it in my web application, to pop up and debug server-side 
JavaScript, but I can only get it to evaluate with the call to exec() on 
the shell Main class. The debugger doesn't show the source code or my 
objects and is apparently not communicating with the shared scope I set 
inside it by calling a hacked version of the "mainEmbedded" method on 
the debugger's Main class.

I understand enough of the Rhino API and debugger and tools codebase now 
to know that the Swing GUI is not using the context in which I've got 
all my objects stored, but I don't understand why it would work fine by 
calling it from the command line, but not when called from a servlet. 
All I'm doing is pretending as if I was calling it from the command line 
(I've even tried writing out the JavaScript to a temp file for 
execution) but I just can't get the debugger to get the right Context. 
The call to "exec()" on the shell's Main class works fine and the 
JavaScript gets executed, but the debugger won't work correctly.

This has stumped me for about a week and a half. Any help that anyone on 
this list can give me (even if it only seems tangentially related) would 
be greatly appreciated. I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels here. If 
someone has tried to call the debugger from a servlet before (or could 
try it real quick) and could point me in the right direction as far as 
what I need to have set, I would really appreciate it.

Jon Brisbin
NPC International, Inc.

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