Spring IDE Drag And Drop Support

This page describes the possibilities of Drag and Drop Support in Spring IDE. This is a complementary approach to the very complete editor.

For now, is implemented (as of 1.3):

• DND of an XML file (with an extension defined in the SpringProjectProperties dialog) from the "Package Explorer" view to a project node in the "Spring Beans" view declares it as a BeansConfig for this SpringProject.
• DND of a project from the "Package Explorer" view to the "Spring Beans" view adds Spring Nature to the project.
• DND of a config node from "Spring Beans" view's project node to a "Spring beans" view's configset node adds the config file to the config set.
• DND of a java type from the "Package Explorer" to the editor opens a BeansWizard? allowing to declare the type as a spring bean in the config file.

Is in a "beta" state (to be released with 1.3.1)

• DND of a java type from the "Package Explorer" view to a config node in the "Spring Beans" opens a BeansWizard? allowing to add the bean to the given BeansConfig file.

Feel free to suggest other DNDing ideas...

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See also: SpringProjectProperties, BeansView, BeansConfig, BeansConfigSet