Watch the screencasts to see Struts 2 support "in action": Navigation and Autocompletion: demonstrates basic navigation and autocompletion features |
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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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Group and manage your struts.xml
-files with an easy to use editor, providing maximum flexibility w/r to your project setup.
Spot setup errors easily, additionally providing a quickfix to add the unmapped struts.xml
-files to any existing fileset.
Creates IDEA project/module-library and - if required - downloads all necessary JAR files required for Struts 2.
Existing struts.xml
-files are recognized upon opening your project and a new S2 facet will be created automatically.
Add a blank ready-to-start Struts 2 application template by selecting Struts 2 from the list of available technologies. A S2-facet with default fileset and an empty struts.xml
-file already mapped in web.xml
will be created automatically, all necessary libraries will be setup as well.
Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N
(Go To -> Symbol) to quickly navigate to any Action/Package by simply entering its name (including wildcards):
IDEA 10.5+
Use this shortcut to quickly navigate from any web-resource used in <result>
to its <action>
-declaration and/or Action-method.
IDEA 11+
Also vice versa from Action-class to <action>
-declaration and any referenced result(s) files
Recognize Struts related files/classes at a glance throughout the IDE (Project/Packages View, Editor tabs, Autocompletion, ..):
Auto-completion is available for virtually all tags and attributes, just give it a try:
Need to refactor your S2 application? Just use the Rename refactoring (Shift+F6
) or perform Find Usages (Alt+F7
or Ctrl+Alt+F7
):
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
).
Errors are highlighted immediately in the editor, additional validation is triggered for Make Project.
IDEA 7: see "Validation" tab in S2 facet for more options
IDEA 8+: see Settings->Compiler->Validation
Various quickfixes to create missing elements etc.
IDEA 10+
Highlight common configuration errors or possible problems on-the-fly.
Visually groups all relevant info with Autoscroll from/to source. Searching for something in the tree? Just start typing its name to find it.
IDEA 8+
Graph of all relevant S2 elements.
validation.xml
-template from ActionSimply 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
IDEA 10.5+
Use the gutter icon to directly navigate to any result(s) from your action method:
Click on the Action-class icon to quickly open the corresponding JAVA/Groovy-class or Ctrl+click on the "action"-attribute to go to the struts.xml
-definition:
Autocompletion is available for most attributes with static values.
(plugin "JavaScript Support" must be enabled)
Enjoy the power of IDEA's powerful JavaScript-support within all S2 UI-tags.
(IDEA 8+: plugin "CSS Support" must be enabled)
Define inline-styles (cssStyle
) or reference existing CSS classes (cssClass
).
IDEA 10+
Support for .properties
-based I18N for <s:text>
(can be disabled in S2 facet, tab "Features").
IDEA 11+ under active development, see Struts2PluginOGNLSupport
(plugin "Spring Support" must be enabled and Spring facet configured properly)
Reference Spring beans where supported (e.g. in <action>
"class", <constant>
"value").
IDEA 9+
Sophisticated configuration properties support
Autocompletion/navigation/usage search in annotations (WIP):
(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.
(plugin "FreeMarker support" must be enabled)
IDEA 8+
All supported S2 taglibs are automatically available:
Global variables as well as properties provided from corresponding Action-class will be resolved:
(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. screen-shots
IDEA 9+
Provides autocompletion, navigation for JSP tags.
Blog post showing off some features