BLOG: Spring IDE

This is a really handy. Eclipse plug-in Spring IDE provides the following features. I enjoy Spring more and more.

· Project nature which supports a list of Spring bean config files and sets of bean config files (aka beans config sets)

· Incremental builder which validates all modified Spring bean config files defined in a Spring project
· View which displays a tree with all Spring projects and their Spring bean config files
· Image decorator which decorates all Spring projects, their bean config files and all Java classes which are used as bean classes

· Graph which shows all beans (and their relationships) defined in a single config file or a config set
· XML editor for Spring beans configuration files
· Extension of Eclipse's search facility to search for beans defined in the BeansCoreModel
· Wizard for creating a new Spring project