Spring IDE's Beans View

With the upcoming version 2.0 of Spring IDE the SpringExplorer will supersede the BeansView!

The BeansView (please refer to the Spring IDE Guide for the the information about accessing this view) is a hierarchical view:

  • The first level of the hierarchy represents all SpringProjects.
  • These project nodes can contain BeansConfig files and BeansConfigSets.
  • A BeansConfig node contains a list of all the beans it defines, each bean node is decorated by a different icon along with its nature (mostly parent or child bean).
  • A bean node contains nodes describing constructor-args, properties, and the properties' values.

BeansView

This view gives access to the underlying workspace resources by double-clicking (in case of BeansConfig).

Depending of the selected node in the tree view the following actions are available from the context menu:

The view provides the following toolbar actions:

  • alphabetically sorting of the nodes in the tree view
  • opening the properties view
  • collapsing the tree view
  • synching with the BeansXmlEditor

The BeansView supports Drag and Drop:

  • Drag a project from a Package or Resource Explorer and drop it to this view to convert it to a SpringProject.
  • Drag a file (with the supported extension) from the Package or Resource Explorer and drop it to its SpringProject in this view to declare it as a BeansConfig file.
  • Drag a BeansConfig file from this view and drop it to a BeansConfigSet in this view in order to add it to this BeansConfigSet set.

See also : Spring IDE Guide, SpringProject, SpringProjectProperties, BeansConfig, BeansConfigSet, BeansGraph, DragAndDropSupport

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