Archive for March 3rd, 2010

Maven Generate actions for pom.xml editor

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Try the last EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 to test new ‘Generate’ actions for Maven pom.xml editor.  Type “Alt+Insert” to invoke the “Generate…” popup menu and select an action to run.

IntelliJ IDEA actually runs live template inside to complete the code generation

Generate action for pom.xml

Let us know what you think about.

More intelligence for web.xml editor

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

With IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 you can enjoy editing web.xml with the new initial parameters support. IntelliJ IDEA now collects parameter names and is also aware of parameter values types. This allows the IDE to generate (with Alt-Insert), complete, highlight and validate them appropriately.

web.xml context-param completion

Grab the latest EAP of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 to try it today.

If you are a plugin writer, you can provide your specific context parameters through the special com.intellij.javaee.model.xml.converters.ContextParamsProvider extention point.