Features

Spring IDE provides the following features:

• Project nature which supports a list of Spring bean config files and sets of bean config files (aka beans config sets)

• Incremental builder which validates all modified Spring bean config files defined in a Spring project

• View which displays a tree with all Spring projects and their Spring bean config files

• Image decorator which decorates all Spring projects, their bean config files and all Java classes which are used as bean classes

• Graph which shows all beans (and their relationships) defined in a single config file or a config set

• XML editor for Spring beans configuration files

• Extension of Eclipse's search facility to search for beans defined in the BeansCoreModel

• Wizard for creating a new Spring project

• Content contribution to Eclipse's ProjectExplorer with Spring artefacts

The following features will be available with the upcoming release 2.0:

• Improved content contributions to Eclipse's ProjectExplorer

• Refactoring support - Refactoring participants for Java class rename and move, package rename and property rename refactorings; refactoring Bean ids; Java refactorings for Bean class rename and move and property rename

• Improved search support - Integration into JDT’s class reference search

• Support of Spring 2.0 - XSD formatted BeansConfig, custom namespaces

• Support for Spring AOP - Parsing of AspectJ Pointcut Expressions, Beans Cross References View, contributions to AJDT's Cross Reference View / Visualiser

• Support for Spring WebFlow - XML editor, graphical editor and validator for Spring Webflow configuration files