apache / apache/netbeans

Spring hotlinking of classes from Spring configuration file

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Description

### Description

Within a Spring configuration file you often have beans defined such as
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It should be possible within the Spring file editor to Ctrl + Click on the class attribute and have netbeans navigate to or Select the class file within the project.

Used to be in much older releases.

### Use case/motivation

The ability to control click on the class attribute content of the spring configuration xml file should select the class in projects and jump to the class

Ability to press space bar after a class and it auto completes the fully qualified class name into the class attribute content of the bean tag.

### Related issues

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### Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the Spring configuration editor support in NetBeans and reproduce the missing Ctrl+Click navigation and class-name completion; done means both behaviors work for a fully qualified class in a bean's class attribute.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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