We have a debugger developed in our company for our own proprietary scripting language. This debugger has the same look and feel like the gdb debugger available in C. It starts a command prompt and has options for adding breakpoints, printing values, method callflow etc. Now I have to integrate this debugger with eclipse. Basically eclipse should invoke this debugger which is installed in the same host and the developer should be able to work seamelessly.
I have read some articles on how to create a debugger in eclipse but did-not find any material as to how Eclipse should be “integrated” with a 3rd party debugger. Does eclipse provide any standard APIs, hooks, plugins to go about the same? Kindly advise.
Eclipse is, of course, open source. Your best course of action is to read the source of the CDT package (the package that integrates GDB etc) and see what extension points it uses. Some of them will be more documented than others.