Code templates have been in Eclipse for a long time. I have blogged about it a long time ago. I have been using it for inserting commonly used statements like logging statements…
When I am inserting a logger declaration I always end up with this:
Eclipse does not know which logger to import. In my case I want it to import the apache logger. Now there is a way you can tell Eclipse to import this automatically. Just edit the code template and add the following:
${:import(org.apache.log4j.Logger)}
This is cool and saves a bit of time. 
For more information on template variables look here.
For more information on template variables look here.
Hi Vasanth,
Do I need some aditional steps? Like restart, a particular version? Because I already have a getlogger template without the import enhacement and still needs to organize the imports after the template call.
This is the template code:
${:import(org.apache.log4j.Logger)}
private final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( ${enclosing_type}.class );
I am currently using Eclipse SDK 3.3
I should have mentioned this is a new variable in Eclipse 3.4.