Question

Is it possible to get code “hints” or code “completion” with JSTL in Netbeans?

I’m using Spring with JSPs as the View so there is really no way for the JSP to intuitively know what’s on the pageContext. Is there a way to document or let netbeans know what type a model attribute is? This can be done with JavaScript in Netbeans so I wondered if it could also be done with JSP.

Example:

POJO

public class Person {
    private String fname;
    private String lname;
    /* Getters and Setters */
}

Controller

@RequestMapping(value="/person")
public void person(Model model) {
    Person person = new Person();
    person.setFname("John");
    person.setLname("Smith");
    model.addAttribute("person", person);
}

JSP, person.jsp

Hello there, ${person.<ctrl-space>

At this point I want to be able to have Netbeans tell me what properties are available to ${person}

Answer 1

Netbeans isn’t that intelligent. IntelliJ is.