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Doug, thanks for the email. I hope you don't mind that I'm forwarding it
to the dev list (I've concealed your address since it does not appear
that you've posted to any JSwat lists before). About your query -- RFE
458 in the bugs database covers this issue. I entered it shortly after
hearing about jclasslib for the first time. It seemed like it would make
this task much easier. However, the changes needed to the source view
code and the new code that would be needed are significant. It is no
small task, and because of its low return on the investment of time,
I've never taken it on.

In looking at the source code, start with the SourceView class in the
com.bluemarsh.jswat.view package. That contains some comments and
proposed API for dealing with the display of bytecode. That, and the bug
report, should give you an idea of the amount of work involved.

thanks

nathan

P.S. I had the Mailman settings for the bugs list set the wrong way, so
the email below was discarded by mistake. However, this message is more
appropriate for the dev list than the bugs list, IMHO.


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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Auto-discard notification
Date: 29 Jan 2003 10:41:10 -0800

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From: Doug Simon
To: [email protected]
Subject: Feature request
Date: 29 Jan 2003 10:45:42 -0800

I think it would be extremely useful to have a Java debugger that can operate at 
the level of Java bytecode similiar to assembly level debuggers for native 
programs. I know this is not a trivial task to add to a debugger frontend but as 
far as I can tell, the JDI interface provides all one needs. As far as I am 
aware, no Java debugger currently offers this feature.

How hard would this be to add to JSwat? I am currently downloading the source 
code and will see if I can add this feature myself.

-Doug