JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Yes! The sunny Spring has finally come to St.Petersburg too. However, it’s not that “Spring” we want to talk now…

We realize that many of you use the Spring framework in your every day work. So, many should be interested in the new Spring-related features that can be found in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 release.

1. Better navigation between xml configs and annotated stereotype components

2. Advanced usage search for @Autowired beans

3. More inspections for your configs, for instance, deprecated classes and members highlighting.

4. More powerful placeholder support. All spring model inspections get and analyze placeholder values before highlighting.

5. More clear Bean Dependencies Graph view. For instance, it obtains beans and dependencies from custom namespaces. Check out this spring integration schemas example.

There are also smaller changes here and there…

Download IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 RC to try it and enjoy the improved Spring framework support.

Anyone working on large Maven projects knows well about how hard it is to keep in mind all the dependencies between modules and libraries; and even harder, to resolve conflicts between them. We’ve greatly improved Maven Dependencies Diagram to make this whole thing a lot simpler.
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In Maia you can quickly analyze Spring Bean dependencies: just press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U while editing Spring application context or invoke pop-up menu on a Spring bean. The quick pop-up view displays selected bean with all its dependencies (including external files), to which you can easily navigate by double-clicking diagram elements.

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