After reading Rod Johnson’s blog entry that introduces a shortcut syntax for specifying Bean properties, I thought that it is about time to give an update on our progress to support Spring 2.0 features in Spring IDE’s Beans XML Editor.
At this year’s SpringOne Rod Harrop first showed me the shortcut syntax and I immediately thought that people will want support for that in their favorite IDE. I prototyped the support for this in the Beans XML Editor a couple of days after SpringOne and forgot about it. Until reading Rod’s post…
Therefore I’m able to provide a preview for this nifty feature right away. The Beans XML Editor will provide content assist for adding p: attributes.
For attributes that are suffixed with -ref - indicating a bean reference - the editor will provide content assist proposals for bean references.
This support will be part of version 2.0 of Spring IDE. If there is some demand I should be able to release a developer preview of the editor, that supports Spring 2.0’s AOP and the p namespace, around The Spring Experience later next week.
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