What is the closest equivalent in Netbeans to Eclipse's Templates (code macros)?

Question

In Eclipse, I can define a template like this:

so that when I'm typing I type the first letters of the template name, choose the template:

and it pops in the code with variables :

What is the best way to get this functionality in NetBeans?

Answer 1

Code templates.

http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/code-templates.html

Link goes to a PHP-specific tutorial, but it's the same for any language that your Netbeans build has support for.