The Jalopy preferences are available through the JDeveloper preferences dialog. In order to access the preferences, on Mac OS X you use JDeveloper → Preferences... and select the Jalopy item on the left pane. On other platforms the dialog is available through Tools → Preferences....

Figure 8.1. Main Jalopy Preferences page

The main preferences page lets you manage your Jalopy profiles. A profile stores the actual code convention to define formatting output, as well as user-specific data like file and dialog histories. You can add, remove, activate, map and configure any number of profiles. For a detailed explanation of the available options, please refer to the section called “Main window”.

Please note that Jalopy does not store its preferences within the IDE configuration files, but uses its own provisions to store preferences in order to allow the resuse of Jalopy preferences between different IDEs.