Comments on: Spring Bean Support

By: Davide Baroncelli

Davide Baroncelli — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:52:48 +0000

Well, let’s put it like that: I’m a customer of your plugin, and I’m not satisfied.

I wonder if now ideaspring supports factory beans, which is one of its major problems, as of 1.2 (and surely something I would have worked on before adding a bean factory grapher, which is something absolutely non idea-ish and generally unuseful: the struts assistant has had one for months, I used it twice just for the fancy of it and then reverted to use its much useful navigation aids…). I’m afraid not, since my bug report has remained unresolved: http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/YWSPR-52

Ideaspring 1.2 indeed IS of too low quality for serious spring work, mainly for that, and because its multi-module support is non-existing: so if one has beans with similar names in different modules of the same project, ideaspring messes with them all, not recognizing they are in different config sets.

I hope 1.3 is better (and it won’t oblige me to re-copy the jar into the idea lib directory every time I install a new idea update ), but up until now none of our 5 licenses is really being used for any serious work: the only “feature” ideaspring really added to our project is (wrong, of course) underlining in red of every reference to a bean issued from a factory.

By: amokila

amokila — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:58:57 +0000

IdeaSpring v1.3-EAP adds FindUsages for bean’s.
IdeaSpring v1.2 already have validation support, inspections, intentions, refactorings, auto-completion, a bean browser and much more.

Just released v1.3-EAP2 (http://www.yanaware.com/ideaspring/eap.php) now works with SpringFramework 2.0rc2, adds graph of beans for a config file and a “Generate Bean Dependency” action.

Let’s judge by yourself if, as Davide told us, IdeaSpring is of too low quality.

By: Davide Baroncelli

Davide Baroncelli — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:42:35 +0000

Unfortunately the spring stuff is pretty much half-baked as of 5.1.2. Let’s hope it gets better in 6.0 (it should, as they’ve scheduled some of my feature requests). It’s sad that the only commercial plugin regarding spring (idea-spring) is of too low quality (although I bought 5 copies of it, hoping to contribute to the development of a good plugin).

By: John Childress

John Childress — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:09:36 +0000

I’m not sure if this is a feature of the Spring Bean Support or of the xml editor, but I noticed the other day when i was editing my “beans.xml” file the following:
1. intellisense for the value of the class attribute of a bean element.
2. When I added property elements under the bean, I was again given intellisense for the available properties of the class.

Not sure which part of the ide this comes from, but I love it. Thanks again for making it such a please to develop

John