The formatting of arguments is an old subject, but the one new formatting feature introduced in 3.5 is: eclipse3.5M4 “Formatter option to preserve user line breaks” The Java code formatter can now optionally preserve user line breaks by not joining lines in code or comments. For example, the wrapped lines of the return statement in … Read more
I would highly recommend the google’s style guide, it’s a collection of coding style guide for commonly used programming languages. The eclipse configurable Java guide can be found here. Installing the guide is quite simple, Save the style xml to a file and import it using the following dialogue box: Window -> Preferences -> Java … Read more
Eclipse 3.6 allows you to turn off formatting by placing a special comment, like // @formatter:off … // @formatter:on The on/off features have to be turned “on” in Eclipse preferences: Java > Code Style > Formatter. Click on Edit, Off/On Tags, enable Enable Off/On tags. It’s also possible to change the magic strings in the … Read more