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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..