diff --git a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/plugin.xml b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/plugin.xml
index a7e10d6d2..86e63e0ae 100644
--- a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/plugin.xml
+++ b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/plugin.xml
@@ -791,6 +791,10 @@
    </extension>
    <extension
          point="org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editor.textHover">
+      <hover
+            class="org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editors.hover.KotlinDebugHover"
+            name="Hover showing debugged variable info">
+      </hover>
       <hover
             class="org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editors.hover.KotlinJavadocTextHover"
             name="Hover showing details of Kotlin element">
diff --git a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinDebugHover.kt b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinDebugHover.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..85278d4d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinDebugHover.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editors.hover
+
+import org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.core.model.JDILocalVariable
+import org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.ExpressionInformationControlCreator
+import org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.JavaDebugHover
+import org.eclipse.jface.text.IInformationControlCreator
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editors.KotlinEditor
+
+class KotlinDebugHover(): JavaDebugHover(), KotlinEditorTextHover<JDILocalVariable?> {
+
+    override val hoverPriority: Int
+        get() = 1
+
+    private val fHoverControlCreator: IInformationControlCreator by lazy {
+        ExpressionInformationControlCreator()
+    }
+
+    override fun isAvailable(hoverData: HoverData): Boolean = true
+
+    override fun getHoverControlCreator(editor: KotlinEditor): IInformationControlCreator? = fHoverControlCreator
+
+    override fun getHoverControlCreator(): IInformationControlCreator = fHoverControlCreator
+
+    override fun getHoverInfo(hoverData: HoverData): JDILocalVariable? =
+            getHoverInfo2(hoverData.editor.javaEditor.viewer, hoverData.getRegion()) as? JDILocalVariable
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinJavadocTextHover.kt b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinJavadocTextHover.kt
index b3f0f224e..bf63e7731 100644
--- a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinJavadocTextHover.kt
+++ b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinJavadocTextHover.kt
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class KotlinJavadocTextHover : KotlinEditorTextHover<BrowserInformationControlIn
     }
 
     override val hoverPriority: Int
-        get() = 2
+        get() = 3
 
     override fun getHoverControlCreator(): IInformationControlCreator = fHoverControlCreator
 
diff --git a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinProblemTextHover.kt b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinProblemTextHover.kt
index 9fb67f81c..09b9b0b0c 100644
--- a/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinProblemTextHover.kt
+++ b/kotlin-eclipse-ui/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/ui/editors/hover/KotlinProblemTextHover.kt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.kotlin.ui.editors.toCompletionProposals
 class KotlinProblemTextHover: ProblemHover(), KotlinEditorTextHover<Any> {
 
     override val hoverPriority: Int
-        get() = 1
+        get() = 2
 
     override fun getHoverInfo(hoverData: HoverData): Any? =
         hoverData.getRegion()?.let { region ->