Re: [Springframework-developer] Dependency checking

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

rod...@in... wrote:

>>Sounds sort of useful, although unless I am misunderstanding 
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>how this 
>would work, it would not be useful for a lot of beans since 
>you can use 
>a lot of beans without setting all properties, relying on 
>defaults, etc.
>
>Exactly, which is why I intend to leave the default as is. 
>PicoContainer's approach seems to ignore the value of 
>defaults (although they have just added support for multiple 
>constructors, which may permit them).
>
>A tool would be great. I suffer from occasional typo trouble 
>too. Apparently IDEA users don't when they refactor because 
>it's smart enough to offer to update XML in the project as 
>well.
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>
For the record Eclipse also will change names in text and other files if 
you tell it to, so refactoring is not normally the issue for me. I am 
somewhat of a sloppy typist though, and do sometimes make errors on the 
initial input, those errors being caught only when I actually try to run 
the stuff.

>I would love to see tool support for Spring. Such as 
>- Eclipse plugin
>- Swing GUI editor
>- XSLT that can generate nice documentation from an XML bean 
>definition file
>- any other good suggestions?
>  
>
Although a full plugin that validates the whole file would be useful, 
now that I think of it, what is needed as a first easy step (in Eclipse, 
and every IDE) and would be very useful for Spring and any other kind of 
reflexive java programming is a fast one keycombo function to check the 
string constant you are in for validity as a java class or interface 
name. I will post an Eclipse feature request for this... This would be 
of help in using so many projects/libs...