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Eclipse provides the following refactoring menu option: Refactor->Introduce Factory... Both JDeveloper and IntelliJ IDEA provide the following refactoring menu option: Refactor->Replace Constructor with Factory Method... Consider having this feature in NetBeans. -- Thanks,
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72060 ***