Spring Project Nature

When you start using Spring IDE with a plain project, the first thing you'll want to do is to add the Spring nature to this project to make it a SpringProject (please refer to the Spring IDE Guide for the corresponding HOWTO). An action (named "Add Spring Project Nature") allowing you to add this nature can be found in the contextual menu of a project in the Package or Resources Explorers .

Beginning with version 1.2.3 you can add the Spring nature to a project by dropping it to Spring Beans view. Since version 1.3 you can use the SpringProjectWizard to create a new project with the Spring project nature already added.

With the Spring nature a generic incremental builder (named "Spring Project Builder") is added to the project's list of builders (use Project / Properties / Builders to view the whole list).

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See also: Spring IDE Guide, SpringProject , SpringProjectBuilder, BeansView, DragAndDropSupport