In the first two chapters, we looked at how to create projects and how to create Java artifacts (classes, packages, and so on).
In this chapter, we'll move on and show how NetBeans can improve developer productivity by describing some different shortcuts for generating code. We'll generate constructors, loggers, toString()
methods, and properties.
After looking at these shortcuts, we'll see some of the different types of code refactoring that can be achieved with NetBeans.