Multilanguage debugger architecture

Abstract

When debugging applications written in several programming languages, current debuggers usually fail to provide programmers with the same quality of user experience that is common for single-language application debugging. As a result, development of multilanguage applications tends to be more expensive both in terms of development and maintenance costs. In this paper, we propose a flexible architecture that facilitates integration of multiple single-language debuggers into a single multilanguage debugger. In addition, we describe its proof-of-concept implementation that allows debugging of applications written in Smalltalk, XQuery and JavaScript. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.