Oh well... better than "this." I think. Netbeans puts up with my convention like that; when I have it automatically generate accessor methods it removes the underscores for me.
My development team uses conventions like "_" and "this." in the code. Maybe it's not "Java-ish" but the point is that conventions are more important for a development team than the style of them. You get used seeing "_" in front of local variables and "this." when using in instance property. What I get confused with is finding "_" sometimes or accessing an instance property without "this.". What's important is ensuring the usage of conventions troughout the team's code.
I realize there is a bug in this snippet. Linefeeds are never added to the header comment as comments promise. I can't figure out how to update the snippet.
You get used seeing "_" in front of local variables and "this." when using in instance property.
What I get confused with is finding "_" sometimes or accessing an instance property without "this.".
What's important is ensuring the usage of conventions troughout the team's code.