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Explyt Spring Plugin — Wiki

Runtime-accurate Spring tooling for IntelliJ IDEA Community — free.

This wiki holds the detailed documentation behind the concise README. Start here, then dive into a topic.

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1. Installation Guide — install the plugin and complete first-time setup.
2. Usage — the core workflows: load beans, navigate endpoints, test HTTP.
3. Native Context Mode — how Explyt reads your real Spring context.

Documentation map

Page	What's inside
Features	The complete feature list across Spring Core/Boot, Web, Data, AOP, Quarkus, and more.
Native Context Mode	The javaagent + bytecode-patching approach that extracts real bean metadata.
Spring Debugger	Spring context, transactions, and runtime property values in the debugger.
Spring Web & OpenAPI REST client	Generate OpenAPI from Spring annotations and run it as a Swagger-UI REST client.
.http / .rest files (RFC 7230)	Run .http/.rest files with httpYac or the IntelliJ HTTP CLI.
Code Generations	Generators for Spring Web methods, JPA equals/hashCode, and more.
MCP Tools	The 7 Spring-aware MCP tools for agentic AI clients (IDEA 2025.2+).
Explyt AI Actions	AI-augmented Spring actions (entity↔DTO, schema→entity, and more).
Usage	Step-by-step walkthroughs for everyday tasks.
Installation Guide	Marketplace, custom repository, manual install, and troubleshooting.
Screenshots · Videos	Visual gallery of the main features.

Useful links

• Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/28675-spring-explyt
• Source: https://github.com/explyt/spring-plugin
• Changelog: https://github.com/explyt/spring-plugin/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• Issues / feature requests: https://github.com/explyt/spring-plugin/issues
• Telegram: English · RU channel / chat

Free for commercial and non-commercial use under the Apache License 2.0.