Usage

Usage

Everyday workflows with Explyt Spring. New to the plugin? Do the Installation Guide first.

Three core workflows

1. Understand beans — open Explyt Spring → Link Explyt Spring Boot Project From RunConfiguration → Load Beans → open Bean Analyzer.
2. Navigate APIs — open Explyt Endpoints → filter routes/listeners → jump to handler code.
3. Test HTTP — run Spring Web methods in Swagger UI, or execute .http/.rest requests.

Tool windows

Explyt Spring (beans & context)

Open the Explyt Spring tool window (right sidebar). Link a Spring Boot run configuration, then click Load Beans / Refresh. Browse contexts, beans, aspects, inactive beans, and library beans. See Native Context Mode for how the bean data is built.

• Bean Analyzer — click the toolbar action to open the Dependency Analyzer view for the current context and navigate between related beans.

Explyt Endpoints

Open Explyt Endpoints to browse and navigate Spring MVC/WebFlux endpoints, router functions, JAX-RS endpoints, and message-broker listeners (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Filter and jump straight to handler code.

Built-in HTTP client

Two ways to test requests:

• Swagger UI from Spring annotations — add Spring Web annotations to a method and click the Run gutter icon to open Swagger UI in the IDE. See Spring Web & OpenAPI REST client.
• .http / .rest files — run requests with the ▶️ Run icon. See .http / .rest files (RFC 7230).

Inspections & quick fixes

The plugin highlights potential issues in your Spring application. Press Alt+Enter on a highlight to see Spring-aware quick fixes.

Code completion & navigation

Improved completion across properties files and annotations; navigate easily between beans, configurations, and endpoints. Gutter icons mark Spring components, endpoints, and scheduled tasks — click to jump to related code.

Code generation

From Code → Generate (Alt+Insert / ⌘N): Spring Web Method from URL/cURL, standalone java.net.http.HttpClient method, JPA equals/hashCode, OpenAPI generation, and Properties ↔ YAML. Full list with demos: Code Generations.

Productivity extras

• Beans in Search Everywhere — press Shift twice → Beans tab → jump to any bean by name.
• Mark directory as Spring Application Property Folder — Project View → right-click a directory → Mark Directory as → Spring Application Property Folder to enable completion/validation in non-standard config locations.
• Inlay hints & Code Vision — @Profile expression results inline, and runtime property values during Explyt debug sessions (see Spring Debugger).
• Kotlin support — specialized inspections for Kotlin Spring applications (see Features).

See also: Features · Native Context Mode · MCP Tools