Company’s code convention dictates own way in writing code. You need to put licence at the top of the file,write detailed descriptions of the class,set who is an author,set version of class or interface,comment your methods and so on.
At this time if not all but most of the IDE allows to automate this process.
And now I am going examine how we can do it in NetBeans 6.7.*.
But in this post I am going to show only how to change @author tag.
Developers who use NetBeans in daily job saw that after creating Java class or interface @author tag sets value automatically. But this value is simple user.name variable.
What if you need to put some other author name,for example we put @author FaYnaSoft Labs.
It is very simple. You need to visit:
Tools->Templates->User Configuration Properties->User.properties
After opening User.properties you should see:
Uncomment line number 8 and put your name,example:
It is great. Try to create for example new class,you should see
As you can see it is very simple operation.
IDE allows to automate a lot of stuff,I write one action per article,because it is easy to find such information with this approach.
I hope this post was helpful for you.
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Cool!
By the way,where does NB stores these properties? Documments and Settings?
Could I have common settings for several (non related projects) and to have different settings for different projects?
By default NetBeans stores it’s settings in a directory called .netbeans under the user’s home directory
You can find settings in Windows at C:\Documents and Settings\username\.netbeans\netbeans_version\config\
Your second question is very interesting and I think I will not write here the answer,I am going to create new post for this.
I will put link here,when I finish the article.
UPDATE:Using different settings for different projects.