Finally, after more than two years, Spring IDE adds comprehensive support Spring Web Flow. The Web Flow support is part of the today released M3 of Spring IDE 2.0. The build is available on the update site. For more information about the Web Flow support visit Web Flow Editor Usage.
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But the Web Flow support is only one of several new additions. Here is compiled list of the new features of M3:
Web Flow support
- Added content assist and hyperlink navigation for Spring Web Flow flow definition files and
flownamespace in Spring 2.0 namespace-enabled bean configuration files #95 in Web Flow XML Editor (this was a two years old ticket, yeah!) - Graphical Editor for creating and editing Spring Web Flow configuration files #174, #253
Spring Beans support
- Extended Beans Core Model to support Spring collection types #486
- Now inner beans and collection types are shown in Beans Explorer and Project Explorer
- Added support for problem marker decoration on every model element #496
- Added extension points to contribute extensions for custom Spring namespaces #474
Spring Beans search
- Integrated into JDT’s class reference search (
Shift+Ctrl+G) #495
Spring AOP support
- Solved ClassLoading problems while creating Spring IDE’s internal AOP reference model #454, #459
- Added support for filtering the content of Beans Cross References View #463
- Added Quick Beans Cross References View (
Shift+Alt+S) #469
Refactoring support
- Spring IDE install refactoring participants for Java class rename and move, package rename and property rename refactorings #481
- Beans XML Editor enables Java refactorings for Bean class rename and move and property rename; select a
beanorpropertyelement and hit the common key bindingsCrtl+Alt+RandCrtl+Alt+V#482 - Support for refactoring Bean ids #232


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