Is there any way to validate spring context xml files in eclipse?
Features like:
- Validate class attribute of bean
- Validate bean references
- Validating with autowireing perhaps?
We’re not working with annotations on current project unfortunatly.
I dislike the current workflow: “deploy it and get a nullpointer for a classname typo”
Sure have a look here at Spring IDE
http://springide.org/project/wiki/SpringideInstall
It does all you requested. (not sure about the autowire).
It even auto completes bean property and references.