Auto generation of comments for getters and setters in Eclipse

Question

Eclipse have an option of generating getters and setters from respective variables. Is there an option or settings by which I can also generate the comments for getters and setters?

e.g. If my variable name is

protected boolean isActive;

Then while I generate getter for this, can I also get the auto generated comment block like this -

/**
 * Gets the value of the isActive property.
 * 
 * @return
 *     possible object is
 *     {@link Boolean }
 *     
 */
public Boolean getIsActive() {
    return isActive;
}

Would be great if this thing is possible. Also is that comment block customizable?

Answer 1

Go to Preferences>Java>Code Style>Code Templates and then change the Comments>Getters template. You also want to make sure the 'Automatically add comments for new methods and types' checkbox is selected.