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IntelliJ IDEA code analyzer will be extended with WebBeans-specific inspections in the upcoming Maia release:



Here’s the example of how they work:

IntelliJ IDEA can help you to analyze and quickly navigate to components in your Web Beans project via dedicated tool window that shows custom annotations grouped by type.

WebBeans event producers raise events that are then delivered to event observers. IntelliJ IDEA analyzes producer event binding types and helps to navigate to related observers and vice versa.



This feature will be available to try when Maia EAP goes public.

@Named Web Beans references may be used in Unified EL expressions on a JSP or JSF page. @Named Beans support includes code completion, usage search, rename refactoring, go to declaration, and more.

Find usages of @Named Web Bean in JSF EL:

IntelliJ IDEA 9 will bring you the full support for WebBeans (JSR-299). The work is already in progress and some useful features will be available in the upcoming EAP releases.

One of them is field injection analysis with navigation to injected WebBeans. Have a look at the example to see how it works.

Here’s where we are:




And this where we jump: