Eclipse for remote developmentPresented by

Taye Su

Agenda

• Theory of Operation

• Workflows• Install & Configure• New Project• Build• Edit• SCM• Debug

• Q&A

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overview

• Global development (US, India, Singapore, China)

• Large C++ codebase

• Linux OS specific

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Theory of operation• Classical Development

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Pain points

• Inconsistence dev environment

• SlickEdit Dev has own hooks and hard to share

• X-Client doesn’t work well for remote users

• Error prone - typing errors to code

• Difficult to trace compiling error

• Manual debugging

• difficult to setup

• difficult to step through code with gdb commands

• gdb is too expensive to run on staging machine

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Solutions for remote development

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Introduction

• PC, Linux and Macintosh versions

• Eclipse enhanced for PayPal developers• Ability to edit/build remotely

• Ability to debug remotely

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Theory of operation

• Rsync Project

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Theory of operation

Rsync Variants for local editing & indexing• Basic Rsync

• Manual Rsync

• Offline Rsync

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Benefits

• Inherited all Eclipse plugin features.

• Graphical remote debugging

• Speediness / responsiveness for remote users

• Consistent development environment

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Workflows

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Workflows – Remote Debugging

• Remote Debug Wizard makes debugging easy

• Debug Steps:• Build Application With Symbols

• Deploy to playground or stage

• Set Breakpoints

• Run the Debug Wizard

• Types of Applications

• Standalone – launched by gdb

• WAC App – launched by Apache, connects via gdbserver

• Service – attach to running process

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Standalone Application Debugging

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executable

IDE gdblaunches

launches

dev staging

WEB Application

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apache

IDE debug.cdbplaces

dev staging

WEB Application

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apache

IDE debug.cdbhttp request

webapp

launches

gdbserver

launches

dev staging

WEB Application

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apache

webapp

gdbserver

IDE

attaches

dev staging

WEB Application

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apache

webapp

gdbserver

gdbIDElaunches

connects

controls

dev staging

Service/Daemon Debugging

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asfhelloserv

gdbIDElaunches

attaches

dev staging

Service/Daemon Debugging

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asfhelloclient

asfhelloserv

gdbcoronacontrols

controls

messages

dev staging

Future works

• Open Source

• RSYNC project creation

• Remote debugging

• Import project base on makefile (hello.exe_def)

• Deploy app

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