Roadmap for Spring IDE 2.0

The following tasks are planned for version 2.0 of Spring IDE.

Migrate to Spring 2.0

• Replace our custom BeansConfig parser with Spring 2.0's Tooling API
• Extend the BeansCoreModel with the new Spring 2.0 artifacts -> IBeansComponent which wraps a Spring ComponentDefinition
• Extend the BeansXmlEditor to support the new Spring 2.0 features -> Support for XML name spaces

Leverage Eclipse 3.2

• Remove the hack introduced for supporting the changed JDT API of Eclipse 3.2 together with Eclipse 3.1's JDT
• Replace BeansView by leveraging the new ProjectExplorer view instead -> BeansNavigator
• Use FilteredTreeView instead of TreeView, e.g. BeansConfig selection dialog in SpringProjectProperties

Leverage WebStandardTools 1.5

• Use WST's Xerces plugin instead shipping the Xerces libraries as part of the org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core plugin
• Create a SpringProjectFacet? for adding Spring abilities (Spring libraries, SpringProjectBuilder) to a J2EE project