Introduction
Struts 2 Plugin for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA provides tight and feature-rich integration to develop Struts 2 applications. Real productivity features (including refactoring support) and , smart assistance just everywhere as well as being a tool understanding the structure and framework will make you more productive instantly. No more countless wizards just generating some XML or code without much intelligence!
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To get a quick overview watch these screencasts to see Struts 2 support "in action" Navigation and Autocompletion: demonstrates basic navigation and autocompletion features more to follow soon... |
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About this page
All (main) features are grouped and listed below. Please check the following table to understand the status indicators.
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Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 icons have changed slightly. |
Struts 2 facet
All plugin configuration settings are bundled in a dedicated facet. Simply attach a new Struts 2-facet to an existing Web-facet, create a fileset and add your struts.xml-files from all auto-scanned configuration files in your project and the plugin is ready to work.
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IDEA 11+
A bundled dictionary providing Struts-specific words and acronyms integrates with IDEA's builtin spellchecker.
Dedicated icons
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Struts elements
Recognize Struts related configuration files /classes or code at a glance throughout the IDE (Project/Packages View, Editor tabs, Autocompletion, ..…):
struts.xml/validation.xml
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Autocompletion
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Please see this screencast to see it "in action" .Auto-completion (a small part only!).
Autocompletion (CTRL+Space) is available for virtually all tags and attributes, just give it a try:
Rename refactoring/Find Usages
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Need to refactor your S2 application? No more manual search and replace - just use Rename refactoring (Shift+F6) or perform Find Usages (Alt+F7 or /Ctrl+Alt+F7):
Navigation to referenced elements
Simply Ctrl-click (or press Ctrl+B) on any element to navigate to its declaration - or take a peek without leaving the current editor using Quick Definition Lookup (Ctrl+Shift+I).
Highlighting of configuration/reference errors
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IDEA 10+
Completion will only show resources relevant for the given (or inherited) result type.
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Configuration errors
Highlight common configuration errors or possible problems on-the-fly - while you're editing. Catch the bugs before time-consuming deploy & manual-test.
Structure View
Visually groups all relevant info with Autoscroll from/to source. Searching Hint: searching for something in the tree? Just start typing its name to find it.
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struts.xml
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: Pageflow graph
IDEA 8+
Graph of all actions and results makes it easy to understand the structure of your application.
validation.xml
Please see this screencast to see it in action: Validator integration
Navigation to/from corresponding Action-class
IDEA 11+
Autocompletion/Navigation to Action-class properties in <field> "name"
"Navigate -> Related File" from Action-class to corresponding validation.xml file(s).
Show validation.xml node(s) under corresponding Action-class (like GUI-Designer forms)
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Simply click on the action icon in the left editor bar to quickly open up the corresponding mapping(s) in struts.xml:
IDEA 8.1.1+: also for Groovy support added
Navigate to result
IDEA 10.5+
Use the gutter icon (or use Navigate->Related File) to directly navigate to any result(s) from your action method:
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JSP
Navigation to Action-declaration/class
Click on the Action-class icon to quickly open the corresponding JAVA/GroovyAction-class or Ctrl+click on the "action"-attribute to go to the open its struts.xml-definition:
Autocompletion/navigation for form properties
IDEA 11+
Form properties will be autocompleted/resolved in "surrounding" Action class. Ofcourse, rename refactoring and finding usages is supported here as well .- no more manual search and replace necessary when updating your forms!
Autocompletion/navigation for other tags
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Please see Struts 2 Plugin OGNL Support for details.
Plugins/3rd Party Extensions
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Spring plugin
(plugin "Spring Support" must be enabled and Spring facet configured setup properly)
Please see this screencast to see Spring integration "in action".
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Autocompletion/navigation/usage search in annotations (WIP):
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Tiles 2 plugin
(plugin "Struts 1.x" must be enabled)
IDEA 8.1.1+
struts2-tiles-plugin.jar must be present as well as Tiles libraries. Configured tiles.xml-files will be set automatically as described in http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/tiles-plugin.html.
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(plugin "Velocity support" must be enabled)
IDEA 10.x+
Add all global macros (struts.vm in struts2-core.jar) automatically.
Autocomplete all global variables.
Blog post incl. with screen-shots
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struts2-jQuery plugin
IDEA 9+
Provides autocompletion, navigation for JSP tags.
Blog post showing off some features
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