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Adding Support for Custom Namespaces

Since version 2.0 Spring supports an XSD-based configuration approach that allows integrating your own DSL for configuration into Spring. How to implement such namespace extension has been documented and the approach has been adopted by several Spring sub-projects and others, e.g. Spring Web Flow and DWR.

In response to an issue in our ticketing system and some comments I got recently, I’m going to introduce Spring IDE’s extension points for plugging in support for your own configuration namespace. These extension points allow you – as a custom namespace developer – to add support for navigation, content assist and validation to Spring IDE.

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