In eclipse, while debugging, how do I access the interactive-top-level (a.ka. the "display console")?

Question

In most programming languages I've used, when debugging, when I hit a breakpoint, I have the ability to execute arbitrary code (whatever I type into the console after the breakpoint has been hit).

How do I do this in Eclipse? The debugging mode has, by default, a display console, but no interactive console (into which I can input Java code for immediate execution)

Answer 1

Eclipse has it indeed. Window->Show View->Interactive Console. Note that you can also execute expressions in the Watch view (e.g. result=false, exception.printStackTrace() etc.).