Using eclipse to generate a class skeleton

Question

Hi,
I'm using Eclipse to write some Java classes. I've already got the API for these classes, I just need to implement them.
Is there some quick way to make Eclipse generate a skeleton of the classes? i.e. I just want to give the signatures of the methods as input, and get a skeleton in return.
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: n_creep on Dec 31, 2007 4:50 PM

Answer 1

Yes, Go into the Window - Preferences menu and then work your way to the
Java - Editor - Templates section. You can create some templates that can easily and quickly produce class skeletons. For instance, this is my Template named SwingMain for displaying with a JFrame a class that subclasses JPanel:
    private static void createAndShowUI()
        JFrame${cursor} frame = new JFrame("${primary_type_name}");
        frame.getContentPane().add(new ${primary_type_name}());
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    public static void main(String[] args)
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
            public void run()
                createAndShowUI();
    }