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- JDeveloper is similar to some of the other IDEs…in that it does provide some code completion for you.…For example, one of the common commands…that we type often is system.out.printline.…Well, in JDeveloper, we can type in…s-o-p for system.out.printline.…Now, instead of doing control-space,…in JDeveloper, you do control-enter,…and it will automatically expand that out…to system.out.printline.…To get a list of these commands,…and to be able to add new ones,…we're going to go to tools, preferences.…

In the preferences dialog box,…under code editor, you'll see…a code templates option.…I'm going to scroll this down a little bit…so you can see more.…You can see, here are some of the ones…that are available already.…We can use case to add a switch statement.…If I scroll down, we see do for a do while,…for, and if I go down to the S's,…we can see s-o-p, which changes…to system.out.printline.…Okay, let's click okay, and let's try one more.…Let's see what happens if we use the for code assist.…

For, control-enter.…At this point, JDeveloper has provided some hints…