Intellij Idea's debugger renders object to string in object view (Preferences -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Debugger -> Data Views -> Java -> Enable 'toString()' object view). This behavior is enabled by default and it leads some strange problem when debug in Dubbo, for examples: #2431, or user may observe a ReferenceConfig may init twice or ReferenceConfig#urls may have two same entries if the breakpoint happens to set in the relevant places. You may interested in looking into the details from http://t.cn/EAhta27, where @code4wt gives the excellent analysis.