eclipse-formatter

The default Eclipse formatter formats my Java code in a really funny way. For example: hello.show().x().y() would oddly be formatted as x() and .y() , and be placed on a separate line. Are there any other basic formatters that can do a better job? Examples and links are very welcome. I always change the formatter in Eclipse to Java Convention AND change the tab policy to always use space instead of tab or mixing of tab and space. Sometime I change also the line width to be 100 or 120 (80 characters is just too narrow in my monitor). Regarding your specific request: yes you can change this

Is there a way to get eclipse to stop erasing existing line breaks? If I have a method signature like this, I can't figure out how to get eclipse to leave it alone: void foo( int arg1, int arg2, int arg3, int arg4) { // ... } With various settings it will either collapse the arguments down to one line, or wrap them at some margin like this: void foo( int arg1, int arg2, int arg3, int arg4) { // ... } With "Wrap all elements, every element on a new line" it does preserve this whitespace, but it will ALWAYS wrap, which isn't what I want. I'd like eclipse to apply formatting for indentation and