The code completion for Java in NetBeans 6.7 also includes options for code to be generated. In previous versions we had to use Source | Insert Code..., but now we only have to press Ctrl+Space and we get to see which code can be generated by NetBeans.
Suppose we have the followings simple class:
package javaapplication11; public class MyObject { private String netbeansRules; }
We press Ctrl+Space (in Windows) to activate code completion (or select Source | Complete Code.... NetBeans shows the code completion popup:
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At the top we see the code NetBeans can generate for us. We see constructors, methods to override from java.lang.Object
and get/set methods for our property:
We select the option we want to let NetBeans generate the code.