Eclipse: Autocompletion for Spring beans in Spring WebFlow?

Question

I am using Spring Web Flow 1.0 and Spring 2.0 (beans are defined in XMLs).

In eclipse (Indigo 3.7), I'd like to enable autocompletion for my beans when writing web flows. I am already using Spring IDE plugin.

Example (I'd like to prompt autocompletion for action - bean and method):

<action-state id="doDeleteSelection">
        <action bean="pm.TypoController" method="doDeleteElement" />
        <transition to="elements" />
</action-state>

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes. This behavior is available in the Spring WebFlow editor. SpringIDE provides basic WebFlow editing using this editor. If you want a more sophisticated graphical editor, then you should download SpringSource Tool Suite:

http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts

It is possible to install STS into an existing Eclipse instance.

I must say that I am a little surprised that you are not finding this feature since the use of the webflow editor should be default for all webflow files. Perhaps there is another problem going on.