Blackberry debugging on Linux via bjdwp

Question

I've gone down the long road of using Linux for Blackberry development. Currently that means:

bb-ant-tools - for building

net_rim_api.jar - and other Blackberry goodies from the Eclipse plugin 1.3.0

preverify - from either the J2ME SDK or WTK, I forgot which

Retrotranslator - for shoehorning some of Java 5 into J2ME

bjavaloader - from Barry, for pushing apps to my device

I'm pretty far off the beaten path, and I've given up Eclipse to boot because I prefer vim. The last remaining piece of the puzzle is:

Blackberry debugging on Linux

I've tried bjdwp, also from the Barry project. I can connect and see some console output when I attach via jdp. However trying to use jdp features seems to fail. Debugging as a remote application in Eclipse results in the following error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Barry::Error'

what(): Controller: requested mode not supported

Could the best way be to setup jdwp in Windows in Virtualbox and connect remotely to that from Linux?

Answer 1

This may be a simpleminded idea you've already considered but could you open up sockets from Linux to Windows and basically just do a print statement level debugging? You just need to get some data out so you can see what is going on, right?