no ReadMe launch configuration in Eclipse Application

[kwon-young]

Hello,
I tried to use this plugin in eclipse but I'm stuck at the launch configuration, where eclipse doesn't show any launch configuration at all.
Steps I did:

• install eclipse photon from official package in archlinux
• install dependencies like platform sdk plugin and lsp4j in eclipse
• import org.eclipse.dsp4e as an existing project
• create a Maven project using the already existing org.eclipse.dsp4j folder
• launch dsp4e project

However, in the new launched Eclipse Application instance, there is no launch configuration choices.
Could somebody help me figure out what is going wrong?

My end goal is to develop the same kind of debugging plugin for vim also using the Debug Adapter Protocol from vscode.
I figured out that I would use this repo as an implementation reference.
The only thing I manage to do so far is to load the json api in python ...

In regard to implementing a debug adapter client, what resources did you use when developing this plugin in order to figure out what to implement?

Thanks for your help!

[jonahgraham]

Hello, Thanks for your interest. This repo is a prototype for what was eventually integrated into the Eclipse LSP4E and LSP4J projects.

Please join us on the lsp4e-dev (for Eclipse integration) or lsp4j-dev (for Java implementation of Debug Adapter Protocol) to continue the discussion. Also have a look at the recent newsletter entry on LSP4E's Debug Adapter work.

[kwon-young]

Thank you very much for your quick response!
Is there a more detailed documentation in how to setup lsp4e?
I couldn't find any after a quick look at the lsp4e website.

Thanks for the link to the newsletter, it was very instructive.
I've subscribed to both list, so I'll ask my next questions on those.

[jonahgraham]

I don't know if there is more complete than what is there and in the repos. It should be normal set-up:

1- Clone git repo
2- Import all projects in repo into newish Eclipse (Photon or 2018-09 pre-release)
3- Set target platform to the *.target file in the repo.
4- Debug/Run

You may want to look at https://github.com/eclipse/aCute as it is a (the?) exemplary project for using lsp4e.

[jonahgraham]

I look forward to further Q&A on the lsp4e-dev mailing list.