SpringIDE

If you are developing with the Spring Framework and you use the Eclipse IDE, then you should definitely check out the SpringIDE Eclipse plug-in. This plug-in is a Spring Framework subproject that aims to assist developers with the development of Spring applications.

The main features of SpringIDE are:

  • Spring bean definition editor (with auto-complete support)
  • Graphical view of Spring beans
  • Spring beans Eclipse view
  • Graphical editor for Spring Web-Flow (under development)

See here for a screenshot of the bean definition editor while I am configuring a DispatcherServlet for a new project.

For more information visit the Spring IDE homepage.