IDE support for Spring

[Grzegorz Kossakowski <gk...@apache.org>]

Carsten Ziegeler pisze:
> Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
>> You can try IDEA. As a committer on apache project you can get license
>> for free for your open source work. It will refactor configuration files
>> simultaneously with java files.

Vadim, it's not the first time you encourage me to try IDEA and since, as you said, it's free for
ASF committers I'm going to give it a look, soon.

> Which does Eclipse as well :)
> 
> I'm not sure, but perhaps the Spring Eclipse Plugin gives even more power?

Cartsen, can you give your configuration (plug-ins included) that makes your Eclipse supporting
refactoring of Spring configuration files? It does not work on my Eclipse 3.3, now.

Thanks.

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Re: IDE support for Spring

[Jorg Heymans <jh...@apache.org>]

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:

> 
> Cartsen, can you give your configuration (plug-ins included) that makes your Eclipse supporting
> refactoring of Spring configuration files? It does not work on my Eclipse 3.3, now.

SpringIDE supports some degree of refactoring (see 'New Features' in the 
2.0 release announcement, http://springide.org/blog/).

I saw this feature being demonstrated at Spring One, IIRC all it 
requires is to enable the Spring nature to your project, then add your 
spring configuration files in the Springide configuration part of the 
project.

HTH
Jorg

Re: IDE support for Spring

[Carsten Ziegeler <cz...@apache.org>]

Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
> 
> Carsten, can you give your configuration (plug-ins included) that makes your Eclipse supporting
> refactoring of Spring configuration files? It does not work on my Eclipse 3.3, now.
> 
I have installed the full-blown Europa 3.3 installation with the usual
suspects like subclipse, spring ide and some others.

The built-in refactoring of eclipse has an option you just have to check
to change configuration files as well; actually it searches for all
textual occurances of the class name. When you refactor something there
is a small wizard where you can check the option.

However, I'm not happy about my 3.3 installation as it replaces to much
in big projects and makes them unusable after a refactoring! But
interestingly this is only on my installation; others having the same
setup have no problems. This must be due to the dynamic nature of OSGi :)

Carsten

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