How to store debug variables in Eclipse?

I want to store debug variables while using a breakpoint and restor开发者_StackOverflowe them regardless of the application. I probably need some plugin to let me serialize variables and restore them anytime.

To be more specific I want:

1. breakpoint
2. see variables, store them
3. let the flow go further
4. restore variables and view them in a convenient way (maybe in debug, but not while debugging) and compare variables with my application's view tier

ps. I was trying to find some plugin, but without results.

thanks

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I completetly agree with stacker, to answer for your next question about expand all it's very hard to implement for eclipse guys - regarding to this

One risk is the difficulty of dealing with self-referencing structures, because application have to expand them only one time. There may be variable A which has a reference to B; and there may be a variable B which has a reference to A. This kind of problems -seem- can easily solve by a set, however this isn't the best approach. Another risk may be the quantity of the features I proposed. I think it would be better to withdraw some of these. I published them here, because I couldn't determine which.

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The only thing you can do (using the standard debugger) is, to copy the textual information from the variables view into the clipboard (Ctrl-C) and store (Ctrl-V) it in a texteditor for later reference. Please note that only expanded nodes, from the variables view, will be copied.