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How do you change what the Eclipse debugger displays for an object in the Variables pane?

How do you change what the Eclipse debugger displays for a Java object in the Variables pane? I'd like to provide a custom string to put there for my objects so I don't have to keep clicking on them. The default of SomeClass (id=111111...) isn't very useful.

I'm using Eclipse 3.6.0.

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Use detail formatters.

Aaron Novstrup  2010-08-24 18:44:52
And the detail formatters (Preferences > Java > Debug > Detail Formatters) allows you to change the default display to the toString() value for each object. Usually that's good enough for me. Thanks!
James Moore  2010-08-24 18:58:43

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