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If cursor is at the end of a method (closing bracket of current method) mouse hover on 'return' should display it's value. Also "Display Tooltip As" from context menu should work. See Issue 155070.
In case the return value is already computed and pushed into the stack, we could return the value after http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6430785 is implemented.