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When debugging applications written in several programming languages, current debuggers usually fail to provide programmers with the same quality of user experience that is common for single-language application debugging. As a result, development of multilanguage applications tends to be more expensive both in terms of development and maintenance costs.
In this paper, we propose a flexible architecture that facilitates integration of multiple single-language debuggers into a single multilanguage debugger. In addition, we describe its proof-of-concept implementation that allows debugging of applications written in Smalltalk, XQuery and JavaScript.
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Vraný, J., Píše, M. (2010). Multilanguage Debugger Architecture. In: van Leeuwen, J., Muscholl, A., Peleg, D., Pokorný, J., Rumpe, B. (eds) SOFSEM 2010: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11266-9_61
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