A Small Place for Distributed Stuff…

For those who do not know JiBX, this is a really powerful XML < -> Java mapping tool. IMO the best one.
Anyway, as I do plan to use it intensively on my future project (I’ll talk more about it later on…), I decided to write a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

Its usage is rather simple: when you right click on a mapping, you can choose to add the selected file to the list of bindings to compile, or remove it.

When you compile your project, the binding compiler run automatically.
Of course, your mappings selection is saved and reloaded when you restart the IDE.

You can find this plugin on the official repository.

This was my first experience writing a plugin and although I find sometime the plugin API to be confusing because TMTOWTDI (PERL mantra). It proved to be quite easy and I must congrat the team behind IntelliJ IDEA for such a cool IDE.

Update:: I had to fix the distribution of the plugin because the 1.0 version was not packaged properly. If you downloaded the plugin and restarted the IDE, the plugin was not installed. So you’ve got to install 1.0.1. Sorry for this issue. I should have tested the installation from the IDE.

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