IntelliJ IDEA for Spring Developers

Intelligent code completion helps you write impeccable Spring-based code faster. IntelliJ IDEA is aware of the context and offers only the most appropriate suggestions not only in your Java or Kotlin files, but also in configuration properties files, URL path references, and many more situations.

The IDE detects errors and probable bugs in your Spring project, even before you compile and run it, and shows you an explanation and offers fixes. The IDE has dozens of Spring-specific inspections covering a wide range of problems, such as bean class autowiring errors and incorrect profile expressions.

Navigate around your code with gutter icons that can take you to the relevant application contexts, to declarations of autowired beans, or between publishers and listeners.

You can navigate from client to service by clicking on the corresponding URL in your projects with Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, and Spring Feign.

IntelliJ IDEA has lots of useful diagrams that can help you analyze your application, and you can jump from each of these diagrams to the Spring element it depicts.

Access the services you need for developing applications in Spring: run and debug configurations, application servers, database sessions, Docker connections, and so on, all from one place – the Services tool window.

IntelliJ IDEA recognizes classes annotated with Spring test annotations as tests and helps you run them from the editor. What’s more, you can easily start a bunch of tests right from the Services tool window.

Compose, edit, and execute HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, GraphQL queries right in the editor while testing your web service with the integrated HTTP client. You can save HTTP requests in a file or add as templates to the version control system and make them available directly in your project.

Access HTTP request mappings via the integrated HTTP client and manage them in the Endpoints tool window. Methods annotated with @RequestMapping or @GetMapping have gutter icons that let you use the HTTP client to make a request to the given URI.

View and analyze dependencies between beans in your project with the Spring Beans Dependencies diagram. Find the Spring element you need and jump to it right from the diagram.

Visualize dependencies between multiple configuration files and analyze how they include and reference each other with the Spring Application Context Dependencies diagram. With this diagram you can easily spot and remove errors, such as circular dependencies.

In the Actuator tab you can monitor and manage the state of Spring Boot application in the production environment – the runtime beans of the application, its status, and also request mappings.

View the definitions of the Spring beans used in your project, and see how they are related to other beans, also navigate between Spring components and dependencies in the Spring tool window.