INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT TOOL AND DEBUGGER FOR WEB SERVICES

• US 20090172636A1
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC (BT Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: British Telecommunications PLC (BT Group PLC)
• Inventors: Robson, Paul Michael, Willingham, Gavin, Griffith, Tim
• Application Number:
  US12/295,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20090172636A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/113
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design

Abstract

A development environment, comprising: text editing means (810); an interface (860) for passing amended code to a live running application (880) on a Java EE platform, and for receiving an exception in the event that said exception is generated by the application; means (830) for parsing said received exception in order to identify an associated portion of the amended code as identified in the exception; and means (810) for identifying the associated line of the class within the text editing means (810).

Claims

1. A development environment, comprising:

text editing means;

an interface for passing amended code to a live running application on a Java EE platform, and for receiving an exception in the event that said exception is generated by the application;

a parser for parsing said received exception in order to identify an associated portion of the amended code as identified in the exception; and

a line identifier for identifying the associated line of the class within the text editing means.

2. A development environment according to claim 1 further comprising means for obtaining the source code from a local repository of any other applications and/or components running at the time that said exception is generated and for displaying these in the text editing means.

3. A development environment according to claim 1, further comprising means for ascertaining the permissible interface types for objects intended to be received by any one of the components running on the Java EE platform.

4. A method of amending computer program code, comprising:

amending code using a text editing means;

passing amended code via an interface to a live running application on a Java EE platform, and receiving an exception in the event that said exception is generated by the application;

in the event of receiving an exception, parsing said received exception in order to identify an associated portion of the amended code as identified in the exception; and

identifying the associated line of the class within the text editing means.

5. A method according to claim 4 further comprising a step of obtaining the source code from a local repository of any other applications and/or components running at the time that said exception is generated and displaying these in the text editing means.

6. A development environment according to claim 4, further comprising a step of ascertaining the permissible interface types for objects intended to be received by any one of the components running on the Java EE platform.