JavaScript Debugger Meeting Minutes

Attendees:

• Sandip Chitale
• Devananda (Deva) Jayaraman
• Joelle Lam
• Quy Nguyen

Agenda

1. Restructuring the modules (in terms of clusters etc) in case JS Debugger is asked to be made an optional feature (minimal PHP IDE). I have sent a query to Pavel/Tor about creation of javascript cluster. No response yet.
2. Reorganization of UI and code to support
   • Firefox vs. IE based debugging (keeping Safari as a possibility on Mac in the future)
   • JS Debugger, AJAX monitor and DOM/CSS inspector
3. Handling the I18N/L10N and encoding issues for data sent between IDE and Browser and the Web Server the browser is talking to
4. I had mentioned this before - the NbJS level packages use:
   • JSFactory
   • JSBreakpointImpl - definitely something wrong here

Architectural Overview

Action Items

1. Internationalization and Character Encoding over the socket.
2. Client and Server Side Debugging Life Cycle
3. UI Review ( Sandip )
4. Unification of Dynamic Language Scripting Profiler ( Bug needs to be filed ). We don't need this for Netbeans 6.5, but architects should start to think about this.
5. Confirm IE has the necessary API to create a profiler (Deva)
6. A nice JavaScript Options Module that is extensible and observable.
7. Make sure Visual Web is not a blocker on this project.

"Nice To Haves" or "Features for 7.0"

1. DOM Window is to be cloneable with ability to specify target session.
   • There might be a drop down menu with "Current Session" as default option (this is the live or selected session from the sessions window) and a list of all the other sessions.
   • If a given session is selected, it will not dynamically change unlike DOM windows that have "Current Session" selected.
   • The goal of this feature is to is to allow users to compare DOMs from different browsers.
2. DOM Diff
   • The ability to run a diff on two different Doms
3. Firefox 3.0
   • We will support this for 6.5 IFF there is minimal changes required.
4. JavaScript Profiler

Status / Round Table

• Sandip is putting together the docs for the UI Review
• Deva - currently able to open IE from Netbeans but much work still needs to be done.
• Joelle -> Working on pushing http monitoring data from JavaScript over the socket.
• Quy -> Reading about JavaScript and still researching for the DOM and CSS window.

Attachments

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