title: Breakpoint at exception in Eclipse - how to examine Exception object?
body: <p>I feel like I'm missing something very simple here.  I have Eclipse set up to break on all exceptions.  So, let's say that it breaks on an AssertationFailedException.  The Debug window will show that thread suspended and has the following data:</p>
  
  <pre>Thread [Thread-1] (Suspended (exception AssertionFailedException)) 
      ContactManager.addContact(String) line: 93  
      ContactManager$ContactDataCallback.dispatch(String, Element, ClientConnector) line: 118 
      PacketHandler.handle(FractusPacket) line: 173   
      ServerConnection.syncProcess(FractusMessage) line: 122  
      ServerConnection.run() line: 248    
      Thread.run() line: 636</pre>
  
  <p>However, the text that I'm looking for, such as:
  "Getter called outside realm of observable org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.set.WritableSet@4b7361e2", is not available until I step through the exception (thus propagating it all the way up the stack) where it outputs the type of the exception, the text (which is the part that I want) and the stack trace.</p>
  
  <p>How can I examine the "AssertationFailedException" (or any other exception) in order to get the message with which the exception was constructed?  Of course I'm in the Debug perspective.</p>