Data::Dumper for java

Perl has a very nice class called Data::Dumper which recursively
prints out data structures and objects, such that if an object owns
other objects, those too are printed out in 'standardized' form (ie:
showing all public and private fields of those subobjects).

Is there an equivalent module in java?

I know you could make one using reflection; my question is *has*
someone made one, one that is tunable (ie: that can override objects'
toString() methods, shows only so many levels of output, etc. Being
able to override toString() for subobjects is very important because
Java so helpfully provides a somewhat meaningless toString() function
for Object)

Thanks much for any info,

Ed
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