Sun Forte Developer 6 update 2 debugs mixed Java and native C++Palo Alto 06 September 2001 The new release of the Sun Forte Developer suite of products, an integrated set of development tools designed for building enterprise applications includes new debugging and compiling capabilities that enable programmers to debug mixed Java language and native C, C++, and Fortran code on the Solaris 8.
Forte Developer now allows customers to more quickly migrate applications to
Solaris and significantly improves the interoperability between open source/GNU
apps across Solaris and Linux systems.
The new debugging capability is based on an extension to the dbx debugger, an
interactive, source-level, graphical and command-line tool, that now accepts the
GNU debugger (gdb) commands. The extension employs the JVMDI (Java VM Debugging
Interface) to implement a native debugging agent running on a Java Virtual
Machine. Developers using Java with C /C++/Fortran to build applications for the
Solaris OE now have a single tool to debug their entire application.
The compilers in Forte Developer have also been updated to improve
interoperability between GNU and open source applications across the Solaris and
Linux platforms, further demonstrating Sun's commitment to open source and Linux
developers. The new compiler capability also accepts more GNU C++ syntax and
reduces the need to re-write source code.
"Sun's Forte tools are an indispensable part of our programming environment,
which involves complex, multi-vendor, multi-platform, multi-language computing
and demands cross-platform debugging and porting tools tightly integraed with
the Solaris OE," said Prof. Christian Bischof, head of the Computing and
Communication Center at the University of Technology Aachen in Germany. "Of
particular importance is Sun's Forte for High Performance Computing (HPC) tools
and support for the OpenMP standard for parallel computing."
The University of Technology Aachen is home to one of the biggest SMP (symmetic
multiprocessing) cluster implementations in the world. With the computing power
of 2.3 teraflops to be installed in 2002, the supercomputer at Aachen is Sun's
largest technical installation to date in the area of High Performance Computing
(HPC).
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