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IntelliJ IDEA 2018.3 comes with better JPA and Spring Data support for Kotlin. The IDE can automatically inject JPQL into query strings, providing completion for entity names and parameters: (more…)…

In this latest post about Kotlin support in Spring plugins in IntelliJ IDEA, we’d like to point out that Spring Boot is also fully supported for Kotlin. When you run a Kotlin main function that starts a Spring Boot application, it will be automatically recognized as a Spring Boot Run configuration: …

Here is the new blog post on Kotlin and Spring support in IntelliJ IDEA. The Spring Framework supports reading values from different kinds of sources using the `@Value` annotation. Completion, reference navigation, and folding property names with their values is now supported for Kotlin in IntelliJ …

It’s time for the next topic in the series of blogs on using Spring Framework with Kotlin support in IntelliJ IDEA. Kotlin classes are final by default, but some Spring functionality requires classes to be open. For instance, `@Configuration` classes should be extendable, and methods annotated wi…

Let’s continue our posts on how IntelliJ IDEA supports developing Spring Framework applications with Kotlin. For now, let’s talk about navigation. The common way of navigation within a Spring Configuration is using gutters, and all Spring-related gutters are now available in Kotlin. (more…)…

Kotlin is now a first-class citizen in the Spring Framework, and in IntelliJ IDEA we are trying to make all the Spring features that have worked with Java over the years work with Kotlin too. In this series of blog posts, we will walk you through some of these features using Kotlin samples, this wil…