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In current implementation the watches view is topmost view. It is quite useless to show it as topmost view, if it is empty. In such case, make the Local Variables view the topmost view.
I agree.
In current NB (6.1) the watches are no longer the topmost view. -> setting to resolved fixed
Verified ... and Closing all issues resolved into NetBeans 6.7 and earlier.