NB-SpringBoot

NetBeans IDE plugin supporting programming with Spring Boot.

Requirements and Installation

This plugin requires NetBeans 8.1 running on JDK 7 or above.

Download the nbm package from https://github.com/AlexFalappa/nb-springboot/releases.

In NetBeans go to Tools > Plugins > Downloaded and click on Add Plugins... button.

Choose the downloaded nbm package file then click Install.

Features

• Spring Boot new Maven project wizards:
  • Basic project
  • Project generated by Spring Initializr service
• Enhanced properties file editor:
  • completion and documentation of configuration properties names
  • completion and documentation of configuration properties values (hints in configuration metadata)
• Spring Boot file templates:
  • CommandlineRunner annotated classes
  • ApplicationRunner annotated classes
  • application.properties files
  • ConfigurationProperties annotated classes
  • additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json files
• Spring file templates:
  • Component annotated classes
  • Configuration annotated classes
  • Service annotated classes
• Spring MVC file templates:
  • Controller annotated classes
  • RestController annotated classes
• Spring Data file templates:
  • interfaces extending Repository
• Code generators in pom.xml files:
  • Add spring configuration processor dependency
  • Add spring-devtools dependency
  • Add spring-actuator dependency

Resources and Documentation

Source: GitHub project

Bug tracking: GitHub Issues

Documentation: GitHub Wiki

License

The plugin and its source code are licensed under Apache 2.0 license.

Acknowledgements

Completion of Spring Boot configuration properties feature is based on Keevosh plugin.

Template and code generator were inspired by those found on Spring Boot Tools 4 NetBeans.

Changelog

• 1.0 (May 2016): Initial public release.