Show function/statement declaration after selecting closing brace in Eclipse?

Question

I'm wondering if you can do something similar to this functionality (available with Zend Studio 5.1) in Eclipse. There is an image of it in action here: http://tinypic.com/r/2d1pao1/6

As you can see, it doesn't just put a box around the starting brace like Eclipse does, it actually shows you the declaration. This is especially handy when you have a really long declaration and don't want to scroll up and find its beginning.

• VonC: Note that Eclipse 3.8 and 4.2 M7 - New and Noteworthy" introduced Bracket matching improvements in Java editor. I have updated my answer below.

Answer 1

(Update May 2012)

The latest "Eclipse 3.8 and 4.2 M7 - New and Noteworthy" introduced Bracket matching improvements in Java editor:

You can hover over a closing curly brace and see the source near the matching opening brace in a hover.
This is helpful when you want to see the code near the start of a long code block.
The hover also tells the number of lines in the code block.

bracket-hover

The hover is also useful to temporarily 'highlight' a short code block.

bracket-hover for short function

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Original answer (December 2009)

Actually, you already have a variant of that with the outline view

If you click anywhere in a function (end of curly brace or anywhere else), the outline view will... outline the relevant function where you are in.

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Otherwise, you need a plugin like Eclipse Source Helper
(update site: http://www.hexapixel.com/update)

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