[Springide-eclip-developer] Beans XML editor project started - input needed

[Torsten J. <tor...@on...>]

All,

we started working on a new feature of Spring IDE - an XML editor for  
Spring beans config files. Some details and a first screenshoot can  
be found here.

If you have any ideas, hints, experiences with regards to an XML  
editor based on the Eclipse Web Standard Tools (WST) project please  
share them with the list.

Currently we need input for the following topics:
How can we leverage JDT to provide code completion for the bean  
classes? Our current brute-force approach (traversing through the  
projects AST looking for packes + types matching a specific string)  
is too slow.
How can we leverage JDT to provide code completion for bean  
properties? Ok, here we have the same brute-force option to traverse  
the AST of the bean class. But is there any JDT code we can leverage?
The icons used in beans view are boring or totally wrong. Do you have  
ideas which icons are a better fit for the artefacts defined in the  
Spring beans config DTD?
Btw. we need an icon for Spring IDE and it's website. Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Torsten