How to turn off the Javadoc hover in Eclipse (or selectively enable it)?

Question

A fellow developer dislikes the Eclipse hovering Javadoc and would like to disable it (one option), or, better yet, only selectively enable it (other option). He\'s using Eclip

Answer 1

You could go to

 Preferences / Java / Editor / Hover

and untick the "Combined Hover" option: no more popup.

Then you would have:

• Shift+F2: open the external javadoc if javadoc archive or directory has been associated with your project (and if some javadoc has been generated)

• Alt+Shift+Q, followed by J: open the javadoc view, with the same content than the popup previously seen on mouse hovering.