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It would be convenient in cases when you are working with structures composed from objects which contains object of the same type (and however other data), for example graphs,... So during debugging base functionality of program you don`t need to see less important data of objects.
Priority is changed to P4 (normal).
Filtering of variables hierarchy is part of new features that will be implemented in some future release. See http://debuggercore.netbeans.org/docs/NewFeatures.html#Filtering_of_variables_hi erarchy
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.