Great.  Thanks guys for your suggestion.  Will purchase asap!

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote:
> I have nothing but good things to say about IntelliJ IDEA's Struts 2
> support... I have not used Struts 1 in a while, but I can tell you
> that I really appreciate the following features:
>
> 1. It is aware that class files are Actions and/or spring beans.
> Therefore, you can jump straight to the class's action configuration
> or spring configuration.
> 2. Tag autocompletion. It is aware of the parameters for all of the tags.
> 3. OGNL awareness (I think this is new in IDEA 11), I believe it
> matches variables back to properties on the action class, etc.
>
> Some of the other features that make it a pleasure to use:
> - proper support for maven (this is my primary problem with Eclipse)
> - very intuitive debugger
> - JPQL console
>
> -Wes
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Burton Rhodes <burtonrho...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> I think this has been addressed before on this list, but I am wondering
>> what you guys have found is the best environment to develop Struts.
>> Currently I use Eclipse Indigo and don't really see any 'good' plugins.
>>
>> Since I use the XML method rather than annotations to map my actions, I
>> find myself scrolling my incredibly long XML file to find the related
>> action mappings. Surely there is a better way to do this?
>>
>> Also, a better auto complete feature for Struts tags in jsps would be nice.
>>
>> Am I willing to pay for software so I am not limited to eclipse for net
>> beans. But the switch would need to offer a compelling reason to switch.
>>
>> Any advice would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks, Burton
>
>
>
> --
> Wes Wannemacher
>
> Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc.
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