Question

I am working on a Java project where code was written by different programmers. There are about 50 packages with 1-10 classes per package.

In some code, the methods and if statements, for example, are declared as follows –

public void setValue(int value) {
    this.value = value;
}

if(value==0) { 
   System.out.println("value is 0");
}

And in other code, the methods and if statements, for example, are declared as follows-

public void setValue(int value)
{
   this.value = value;
}

if(value==0) 
{ 
   System.out.println("value is 0");
}

The difference is in the alignment of parenthesis. Is it possible in Eclipse to at once change all of the former types of alignments into the latter?

Answer 1

First configure the Formatter:

Window / Preferences / Java / Code Style / Formatter

Then apply the format to a class selecting the code and doing:

Ctrl + Shift + F

You can do it over all classes in a package or source folder doing right click over the element and selecting:

Source / Format