Eclipse comes bundled with a nice feature in the form of editor templates. These templates allow you to quickly generate commonly used code. To use a template, simply type in the name of the template and hit Ctrl + space.
There are already a ton of templates available in vanilla Eclipse like test, which will generate a JUnit 4 test method stub, or sysout that will expand into a System.out.println();. But it is also very easy to create your own. Here I will demonstrate how by creating a code template for a SLF4J logger field.
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