{"id":62793,"date":"2016-12-26T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/?p=62793"},"modified":"2016-12-26T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T11:13:51","slug":"work-started-apache-camel-intellij-idea-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.javacodegeeks.com\/2016\/12\/work-started-apache-camel-intellij-idea-plugin.html","title":{"rendered":"Work started on Apache Camel Intellij IDEA plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because its Christmas does not mean the Camel stands still.<\/p>\n

On the even of the 23rd I took the evening to do a bit of research and start hack on a little prototype for an\u00a0Apache Camel plugin for IDEA<\/a>. Its something that has been on my radar for a longer time.<\/p>\n

The reason is that Apache Camel provides a catalog with has a ton of great information for tooling. The catalog includes every little detail about every Camel component, EIPs, data formats, languages, and much more.<\/p>\n

I have long wanted to have a little plugin for IDEA (and also Eclipse if possible) for code assistance to setup Camel endpoints – in other words, having ctrl\u00a0+ space to show a list of Camel options you can use on any given Camel endpoint.<\/p>\n

Sidestory begins …<\/p>\n

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\nSo in the darkness of the night I found myself back in Intellij IDEA plugin land. It was a long long time since last time I hacked on a IDEA plugin. It was so many years ago I cannot remember exactly, but it was around 2002. I created a little plugin called Generate toString which would generate nice toString methods for your POJO classes, like you can generte equals\/hashCode etc. Over the years that followed I maintained the plugin and upgraded it for newer IDEA versions which would often break the plugin, or they have moved\/changed their APIs. Back then the plugin API was hardly documented, and there was no source code of the editor itself, so it was no fun to try to figure out how to get it to work again, or how to use some of \u00a0the existing IDEA dialogs etc. But in the end it was possible, and for a few dialogs I actually had to build it myself using Java Swing etc.\u00a0The plugin later found a new home at Jetbrains where they took over and provides the plugin out of the box in IDEA. Thanks Jetbrains. You make the best editor on the planet.
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\nYou can read more about this story in the following blog posts:<\/i>

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