Introduction

WIP is a codename WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol Java implementation. This is the main Google Chrome/Chromium debug protocol and historically it succeeds ChromeDevToolsProtocol. It is natively used by in-browser Developer Tools.

WIP stands for "WebInspector Protocol" and is used within "Google Chrome Developer Tools for Java" project only, mostly for historical reasons.

The development process earned a dedicated article.

How to start Google Chrome/Chromium

chrome --remote-debugging-port=<port>

How to attach from Debugger

A launch configuration named "WebKit Protocol" should be created (see tutorial).

How to attach from SDK

Use the following create method:

org.chromium.sdk.wip.WipBrowserFactory.INSTANCE.createBrowser(...)

WIP Backends

Note that the project contains several alternative protocol implementations for the different versions. They are deployed as "WIP Backends" (see main article).

Protocol Name

Protocol is called 'WebKit Remote Debuggin Protocol'. You can be sure that you are using this protocol, if you are starting Google Chrome/Chromium with the following parameter: --remote-debugging-port=<port>

Compare with ChromeDevTools Protocol.

WebKit Remote Debugging Protocol

See http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/remote-debugging.html. Blog posts:

• Remote debugging with Chrome Developer Tools, The Chromium Blog, May 9th, 2011,
• WebKit Remote Debugging, Surfin' Safari, May 9th, 2011.