Making Eclipse's Java code formatter ignore block comments

Question

Is there a way to make Eclipse's built-in Java code formatter ignore comments? Whenever I run it, it turns this:

    /*
     * PSEUDOCODE
     * Read in user's string/paragraph
     * 
     * Three cases are possible
     * Case 1: foobar
     *         do case 1 things
     * Case 2: fred hacker
     *         do case 2 things
     * Case 3: cowboyneal
     *         do case 3 things
     *         
     * In all cases, do some other thing
     */

into this:

    /*
     * PSEUDOCODE Read in user's string/paragraph
     * 
     * Three cases are possible Case 1: foobar do case 1 things Case 2: fred
     * hacker do case 2 things Case 3: cowboyneal do case 3 things
     * 
     * In all cases, do some other thing
     */

I have already played around with the Windows > Preferences > Java > Code Style > Formatter settings but can't find one for keeping comment formatting. I'm using Eclipse 3.4.0.

Answer 1

There is another solution that you can use to suppress the formatting of specific block comments. Use /*- (note the hyphen) at the beginning of the block comment, and the formatting won't be affected if you format the rest of the file.

/*-
 * Here is a block comment with some very special
 * formatting that I want indent(1) to ignore.
 *
 *    one
 *        two
 *            three
 */

Source: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/codeconventions-141999.html#350