[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: JDT watchpoints are surprising

["Darin Wright" <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can set the "watchpoint" to be an "instance breakpoint" using the 
"Instance Breakpoints..." action from the variables view. So when you stop 
at the watchpoint the first time, select the associated object in the 
varibles view (this), and use "Instance Breakpoints..." to restrict the 
breakpoint to that object.

Darin  Wright

"Don Porges" <dporges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Do I understand correctly that a JDT "watchpoint" applies to every 
> instance of the asked-for field name within a given class, and not only 
> the exact object that the user clicks on in the variable window?  If so, 
> this seems like it would almost never be useful.  (And it should be 
> explained in the docs, since I've never heard of a "watchpoint" that does 
> that, and I expect others will be confused as well.)
>
> Relatedly, can anything useful be done (in any context) with the "id" that 
> I see that every object is given, beyond writing it down and thus getting 
> a clue that two things are the same object, or not?
>
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