The Eclipse plug-ins provide rich features such as code autocompletion of Spring beans, a visual explorer for bean dependencies, management of resources and automatic syntax checking for configuration files.
We're going to see two plug-ins: SpringIDE and AJDT (AspectJ Development Tool).
SpringIDE provides an autocompletion of the beans in the XML files, and checks if the classes exist and if the XML is well-formed. A "red signal" on the wrong XML line appears if an error is found.
SpringIDE provides a visual graph to see the dependencies between your beans.
To install the SpringIDE in your eclipse installation, go to http://springide.org/blog, and copy the link to the latest version of the plug-in.
The current link is http://springide.org/updatesite/. Copy this link in your clipboard.
Now, to install the plug-in, let's go in Eclipse to Help | Software Update| Add site and copy the link http://springide.org/updatesite/.
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