It would be really nice if you'd implement a usable toString in
the Swing api. I wouldn't take much. The 1.1 awt 'Component'
implements toString and calls paramString. Simply override paramString in
each JComponent as in the following sample code for JLabel.

protected String paramString() {
return super.paramString() +
  ",mnemonic=" + mnemonic +
     ",text=" + text +
     ",defaultIcon=" + defaultIcon +
     ",disabledIcon=" + disabledIcon +
     ",verticalAlignment=" + verticalAlignment +
     ",horizontalAlignment=" + horizontalAlignment +
     ",verticalTextPosition=" + verticalTextPosition +
     ",horizontalTextPosition=" + horizontalTextPosition +
     ",iconTextGap=" + iconTextGap;
    }
From Tom Crosman <###@###.###>