How to add spring plugin in 'intelli J'? - spring

I cannot able to find spring in my listed plugins..and also i am not able to find spring-boot in marketplace..I am trying to learn spring, but getting lot of obstacles like this.can someone please help me in this?

Are you using the Community Edition? Spring plugin is only available in the Ultimate edition.

Frameworks support for spring is available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate only. You can see the details on the here.

If you're using Ultimate edition, spring is already included in it.

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Why Spring Facet is not detected and it is not listed under Framework dropdown list?

Brieflly, i have a problem with Intellij IDEA Community Edition precisely the version 2019.3.15.
My problem is that i imported a Spring boot application already generated using Spring Tool Suite(STS). The importation has been done correctly without any warnings and problems, but i noticed that the project has no Facets detected, i tried to fix that by going to Project settings => Facets => + and i found out that Spring Facets is not listed in the dropdown list please look at the image bellow :
Has anyone faced the same problem ? is it an IntelliJ bug? And if you have any suggestions please comment it bellow ?
Spring support is available only in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition.

Is there any way to auto generate UML diagrams in Spring Tool Suite IDE

I have created my Project in Spring Tool Suite (STS). I need to auto generate UML diagrams like class, sequence, activity and domain diagrams. How can I do it?
Try ObjectAid plugin for Eclipse.
It should work with STS.
There are a log of plugins that claim to do this but none are successful. Its easy for normal Java Code but for a STS project which builds on Maven. Not possible as of yet!
If anybody is still interested in this topic, you can check out Rebel plugin with StarUML.
More details can be found here: https://www.archetypesoftware.com/.

How to enable spring support in IntelliJ Community Edition 2016.1.3

I have very good pure Java basic knowledge. As long as there are no XML config and no project management tools involved, I am very good.
The things that really confused me are the project management tools, e.g.: Maven, Gradle.
I am learning Spring, and it is so confusing to me since it involves many XML files and there is no clear explanation for it.
I am learning Spring from this set of video tutorials, Lecture 6
Spring "Hello World".
I couldn't get a Spring hello world done because it requires a xxxxx.xml file to config the beans (Java object). To generate the XML files, I need to generate an XML file using a plugin on IntelliJ 2016.
The question is I can't find the plugin to generate a XML file for the bean by following this official tutorial. There is no such plugin called " Spring Support".
What should I do to generate the beans.xml? (The file to manage beans for Spring)
You can't enable Spring support with IntelliJ community Edition, it only available with paying version (Ultimate).
However, you can create the .xml file manually and CE version also supports it (a little bit).
To working with Spring or J2EE, you should get familiar with build tools like Maven, Gradle (or Ant in some special case). The concept is simple and you can get it easily from the official website (https://maven.apache.org/ - http://gradle.org/).
For Spring, if you are not familiar with creating a .xml file, you can use Java configuration instead or move to use Spring-boot to forget this configuration file (almost).
However, at first, I think you should get the basic concept of Spring and try to work well with .xml files configure. It'll be helpful in the future when you work with it deeply.
Let's take things one by one:
Your problem understanding builds management tools like maven and gradle. Try these links for tutorials: Maven in 5 Minutes, gradle is very advance build automation tool with continuous Integration features, you can find a good comparison between gradle and maven here.
If you are confused about spring to try this book: Spring in Action 3rd Edition (4th Edition is also available, I recommend 3rd edition as you will be able to link XML to annotations.)
You do not need any tool to generate XML files. Copy a sample spring configuration file from the internet, remove unwanted elements and write your own beans.
The Spring support plugin is a feature of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, which is a commercial IDE. It's not available in the free Community Edition.
You don't need any plugin to generate the beans.xml file; you can write it manually in the source code editor.
For Spring support, did you try "Spring Assistant" plugin ?
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10229-spring-assistant
Good part it is it has active development.
Edit on Aug 21, 2020:
Seems like this plugin has no more active development. Its last release was in 2018 April.
No need to worry. We sill have some good news :-)
Its Github repository is here. We can clone the repo and make necessary changes what ever we specifically need.
I know you are asking about IntelliJ Idea but as it is a commercial tool, you should pay to let you use its plugins. Another way is using "Spring Tools for Eclipse" which is a great environment to develop Spring applications. But you need to be familiar with eclipse.
It can be downloaded from:
Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse

How do I implement dynamic reloading in Spring (Netbeans)?

I'm used to writing Grails applications where my view or controller changes are automatically redeployed on save. I'm now stringing together a Spring Web-
MVC application and I'd like the same feature.
I'm using Netbeans as an IDE, Gradle as a build tool and the spring-boot plugin at the moment. I remember some talk of people using Jetty as it's so quick to restart that dynamic class reloading / deployment is no longer necessary. I've heard others mention JRebel which I used to use a few years back. I'm sure there is a more modern, spring-supported / spring-standard way of doing it.
I'd also like to know if you recommend deploying as a WAR or as a standalone executable JAR with a lightweight built-in web server.
Recommendations appreciated.
A yet unsolved challenge
It turns out that the Netbeans Gradle plugin does not support "compile on save" out-of-the box - and this means that a Java Agent won't be able to pick up the changes. The author kelemen suggested one or two approaches around this. It's a non-negotiable for me, so I decided to switch IDE's to Eclipse (terrible Gradle support), then IntelliJ Idea - which is looking very promising.
Netbeans Gradle Author Comment: https://github.com/kelemen/netbeans-gradle-project/issues/183
Alternatively, there is Jrebel, which is claimed to be able to support this Netbeans / Gradle combination. I wasn't able to get it working easily using a trial of JRebel. The JRebel support guys are there to help, so if you're willing to pay the price, it's likely that their support team will solve your problems.
JRebel: http://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/
If anything changes, please comment below...
Spring class reloading is supported by HotswapAgent as well. It is free alternative to JRebel.
Spring has their own agent as well: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-loaded. While developing why not just use embedded Tomcat/Jetty provided by Spring Boot.

How to get started with Server Side - Java - Spring Framework

I'm very new to server side programming, and I want to develop something by using java and Spring framework. I'm working in Android technology for the last two years and I'm very much familiar with Java and Eclipse IDE.
Can anyone provide me links to some useful tutorials and examples?
Which IDE will be more suitable for me? Eclipse or Netbeans?
Thanks in advance...
I think Eclipse is more suitable, Because you already know about Eclipse(Eclipse is used for android projects).
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/html
http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/
It's a very vague question but I'll give you my opinion:
Learn Java EE - this includes:
JSP/JSF
Servlets
Web
EJB 3
Build an application using these technologies and only after you familiarize yourself with it, only then start using spring. Spring is using a lot of theses technologies behind the scenes and it is important to understand what is going on
Regarding eclipse vs netbeans - I'm a huge fan of eclipse and i think it is a great tool however netbeans has better integration with Glassfish (sun/oracle application server) and better GUI tools. so it is really a matter of taste.
As for web/application servers:
Tomcat is a great server to start with, but since it is a web server it does not support EJB.
For using EJB you'll need an application server like Jboss or glassfish.
I'd start with tomcat and then move to glassfish.
What IDEs are you used to? I recommend that you use STS - Spring Tool Suite, which is an Eclipse based IDE maintained by SpringSource. Alternatively, the IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate also provide good support for Spring projects.

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