The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 introduces support for Spring Integration Framework — an extension of the Spring programming model, supporting the Enterprise Integration patterns. All the elements from the new namespaces provided by this framework are now recognized as beans, could be searched and renamed. You can view their dependencies and navigate to referenced beans. Few inspections and intentions allowing to validate and correct the model have been added. Code auto-completion is also available. Please try this feature in the latest IntelliJ IDEA EAP build. Any feedback is h

Sometimes while editing pom.xml one needs to define a property and replace the occurrences of some value - artifact version, for example, - with this property. Now you can use the new IDEA  Introduce Property refactoring for these purposes. To invoke refactoring, select the string that should be replaced and press Ctrl-Alt-V (alternatively, you can use Maven/IntroduceProperty action in the editor context menu). In dialog enter the property name and select the pom to create the property in: Introduce Property dialog Refactoring finds all the occurrences of the selected string in the poms hie