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Maven pom.xml editor new features

March 4th, 2010 by serega.vasiliev

Since the latest IntelliJ IDEA  9.0.2 EAP the IDE contains a bit of new Maven-related pom.xml editor features.

1. Easier Navigation

  • You can navigate to “Dependency usages” from “dependencyManagement” of your parent pom.xml:
    and back:
  • You can navigate through projects tree

2. Smarter Paths
‘Path reference’ notion were added to the editor to enhance the code completion, usages search and rename refactoring of project paths.

3. More intelligent plugins configuration
IntelliJ IDEA analyses plugin parameter types and adds smart value editors for plugin configuration tags.

You feedback is as always highly appreciated.

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5 Responses to “Maven pom.xml editor new features”

  1. Peter Niederwieser Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    This is fantastic, even though I think Gradle is the future. :-)

  2. Timo Meinen Says:
    March 6th, 2010 at 5:51 am

    Great news. Especially the parent handling is a missed feature. Gradle seems to make it right, although there are not as much plugins available as for Maven.
    @Peter: You can use the Grails Plugin in IDEA to write your Gradle scripts.

  3. Anton Volkov Says:
    March 7th, 2010 at 4:19 am

    Many thanks for it!
    Nevertheless, pom-editor is far from ideal.
    Perhaps you should look as it is done here:
    http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Maven+POM+editor

  4. Ashitkin Alexander Says:
    March 7th, 2010 at 11:58 am

    really cool. maven support gets better.

  5. Paul Says:
    June 15th, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Is there support for maven 3 in the newest community edition on Intellij?

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