Friday, April 13th, 2007
Fireclipse: Debug from FF straight into Eclipse
John J. Barton has released a new open source framework named Fireclipse that enables nice coupling of Firefox and Eclipse for debugging purposes, working on top of Firebug.
- Fireclipse routes error messages from Firefox’s
Javascript Console to Eclipse’s console. - Fireclipse positions an Eclipse editor on the source line reported by Firefox.
- Calls to
dump()end up on the Eclipse console - Fireclipse adds an Eclipse panel to Firebug
- Extensions to Firebug include:
- debug
eval()code. - debug event handlers
- route error messages to eclipse
- executable line numbers marked
Take a peak at the page of screenshots to see it setup in Firefox and Eclipse.
( via Dean Edwards )
4.1 rating from 27 votes
Holy smokes! The Holy Grail if this actually works. I’ve yet to get the Aptana tools to live up their promise. Wish I weren’t so slammed today so I could give this a try.
John J. Barton. Your my hero.
Anyone been able to get it to work? Or to find how to install Eclipse plugin?
The install process involves patching Firebug, so I decided not to try this out. It’s not clear to me what Fireclipse offers that isn’t available using Aptana, aside from the Firebug integration. Steve, can you be more specific about why Fireclipse is exciting for you?
Hey, looks cool…
i just tryed the firebug patch,
couldn’t get it to work (on windows).
Did any one heard of someone using it?
Could he give a link to the generated xpi?
thanks
I’ve now tested JustPatchFirebug.sh on linux as well, script pass with no error but the result xpi doesn’t give me the eclipse tab in firebug…
I’ve seen many posts about this extension on the web, but couldn’t find any feedback of users…
Is this stuff real or what?
I got the same problem, the web of John J. Barton works and redirect to http://fireclipse.xucia.com/. But there is no eclipse plugin, its only firebug. I install it, and didn´t appear the eclipse tab like de screenshots.
http://fireclipse.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/fireclipse/trunk/FireclipseDocumentation/screenshots.htm
Anybody make it works?
Thanks