Eclipse refactor pull up

Question

I have many classes (B0, B1, B2... B#) all extending class A

After initially overriding a function of A and implementing it in all of the B classes. I realise I could have been smarter and implemented it in class A, and now wish to move the function up into it.

Is there a simply way in which I can either remove all the the overrides from the B classes?

Answer 1

You could try a find/replace with a regex:

find    - @Override\s*modifier\s*returntype\s*methodname\s*\(.*\)\{.*\}
replace - (blank)

(In my regex, replace modifier with public / private / protected , replace returntype with the return type, and replace methodname with the method name.)

Answer 2

Depending on what version of Eclipse you have, you can right-click on the class(es) and go to Refactor => Pull Up. I tried it in Juno.