Joomladay NL 2008 - Debugging Joomla! in Eclipse

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Using Eclipse as IDEA quick introduction to the Eclipse project

Joomladay NL, April 2008

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Laurens Vandeput

Eclipse! Project Member

•ATF Committer

Joomlatools Project Member

• Software developer• SITEman lead developer

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http://www.joomla.org





EclipseAn open development platform





Eclipse – An open development platform

• Open source community

• 60 open source projects

- Enterprise development

- Embedded and device development

- RCP

- RIA

- ...





Eclipse – An open development platform

• Supported by an ecosystem of major IT solution

providers, start-ups, universities, ...

• We build the tool to build tools

• Eclipse Public License (EPL)





There are three kind of lies:lies, damn lies, and statistics.


– Benjamin Disraeli




Eclipse – by the numbers

• Java source files: 9.689

• Lines of Java source code: 1.903.219

• Automated JUnit tests run every build: 21.332

• Instances of the word “foo”: 224

• Number of donuts eaten: 1120












Europa Callisto

21 projects 10

17 million LOC 7 million

25 organizations 15

19 countries 12









Eclipse – PHP Development

• PDT (PHP Development Tools)

- Debugging: Xdebug

• PHPEclipse

• Zend Studio (based on PDT)

• J!Code (based on PHPEclipse)





Eclipse – Xdebug

• Stack traces

• Function traces

• Protection for infinite recursions

• Profiling

• Code coverage

• Debug scripts interactively





PHP Debugging in EclipseDemo





Eclipse – ATF• AJAX Toolkit Framework

• Code completion and debugging for Javascript

- Monitor AJAX calls

- Breakpoints, ...

• Modify DOM elements in real-time

• Visual designing of Ajax applications

- Mozilla XULRunner Technology





Questions ?Stump the geek




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