Bug 432644

Summary:	Make the output console a lot more useful
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Dave Dyer <ddyer>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ddyer
Version:	4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Dave Dyer

2014-04-11 15:03:15 EDT

The basic idea is to make things printed into the console window be live objects rather than just dead text.  With handles to the underlying objects, console output becomes a first-class contributor to the debugging process.

View this one minute video which demonstrates a proof-of-concept using
beanshell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33uAQ8bf3hA

the changes to beanshell to get to this point are quite minor,
and I would expect the same to be true for the console windows
in eclipse.   Obviously, this is just a minimal demonstration,
there should be a fancier UI within the console window, a default
pretty printer (using introspection) to explode the contents of
objects, a protocol to allow object to add things to the right-click
menu, and so on..