Chapter 5. Rapid Development

Eclipse really shines in its ability to improve your development productivity. It offers features that help you navigate and understand large, complex Java projects and automate repetitive or tedious tasks. This chapter does not cover all such features in Eclipse—it's a very long list—but it introduces the fundamental capabilities and explains how they work. Additional related features are described in Part 2 as part of agile development.

In this chapter, we'll see how to

• Use the Java editor and Outline view for synchronized navigation and editing

• Configure source attachments that display Javadoc comments in hovers and code completion lists

• Use Content Assist and code templates to speed up your development

• Use Quick Fix to apply automatic error correction

• Generate getter and setter methods automatically for fields

• Explore type hierarchies in the Hierarchy view