1. HP C/C++ Remote developer plug-in for Eclipse
Presentation Title
HP C/C++ Remote developer plug-in for Eclipse
HP team

2. The Challenge – Server Development
Presentation Title
Windows®/Linux Desktops
HP-UX Integrity Server
September 21, 2018

3. What Developers Want Development environment choices: With Eclipse:
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Development environment choices:
1: Native on server using non integrated tools
2: Native on server using an IDE through a X Server emulation
3: Remote development from a desktop with an IDE
Local compilation on desktop
Remote compilation on server
With Eclipse:
Only option 2 is available
Doesn’t scale with number of developers
Demand growing for option 3
Reduce load on server, scalable with number of developers
Option 3 benefits:
Reduces server load by delegating work to Windows®/Linux desktop. Less network bandwidth
Support multiple developers
September 21, 2018

4. Our Solution HP-UX Integrity Server Windows®/Linux Desktop rsh / ssh
Presentation Title
HP-UX Integrity Server
Windows®/Linux Desktop
rsh / ssh
Eclipse platform
CDT
HP Remote
Development
Create a Remote Project
Configure the project
Edit the source files
Remote build
Remote debug
Samba server,
rsh Daemon
HP aCC
HP gdb
Build/Compile
Run
Debug
September 21, 2018

5. Remote Developer Plug-in Capabilities/Limitations
Goal: Provide a standard IDE for C/C++ development on HPUX platforms
Remote developer plug-in has
Edit: An editor enabling editing remote source files on the desktop
Compile/Build: Capability to compile the projects in the remote system – in the same way as in local system
Debug: Debug an executable running in the remote platform using the GUI interface of CDT, using gdb.
Remote developer plugin does not:
Provide a method to access the remote system and execute commands on it
Currently support non-HP compilers.
September 21, 2018

6. Features Key feature Sub-features Comments Project creation
Create a project with remote source files
Remote projects similar to local projects
Editing
Content assist
Search (remote include file search)
Navigation
Code Template Preference
Support for remote projects similar to that for local projects
Compile
Standard make
Jump to error location
Managed make is not yet supported
September 21, 2018

7. Features .. (2) Key feature Sub-feature Comments Debug
Debug C/C++ programs
Attach to remote process
Supports register view, register grouping, disassembly view, expressions watch, breakpoints view, thread stack view etc. in the UI
Run
Run remote executables
Can specify arguments and environment variables from desktop.
Version control
Built in CVS support
Works with Clearcase plug-in from Rational
September 21, 2018

8. Changes required for extending to another server backend
Design Highlights
Design Element
Highlight
Changes required for extending to another server backend
Scalability
Scales well for a large number of users - Scalability depends only on the samba scalability NA
Extensibility
Easy to extend support for Edit, Debug and Run phases for other unix platforms
Some effort needed to extend support for Compile phase
For Compile phase, write error parsers for
Compiler
Make
Assembler
Linker
Server side requirements:
Samba server or equivalent for file sharing
MI-based debugger
September 21, 2018

9. Future Provide support for managed make projects
Incorporate features from new CDT releases
Generic error parser
Provide support to developers for using/extending the plug-in
September 21, 2018

10. BACKUP
September 21, 2018

11. Current status: Uses Supported clients: Supported server (backend)
CDT 3.1
Eclipse 3.2.
Supported clients:
Windows XP
Linux
Red hat linux(Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 (Intel x86 GTK) ) &
Suse Linux (SUSE Linux ES 9 (Intel x86 GTK))
Supported server (backend)
HPUX PARISC 9000 server
HPUX Integrity server
September 21, 2018

12. Plug-in Diagram REMOTE CORE N/W REMOTE DEBUG REMOTE LAUNCH REMOTE MAKE
REMOTE UI
REMOTE LAUNCH
REMOTE MAKE
Remote
HP-UX
System
aCC
/GDB
REMOTE.DOC.USER
REMOTE ERROR PARSER
CDT
CDT
ECLIPSE PLATFORM
September 21, 2018