Explyt Spring Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition

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

Explyt Spring brings real Spring understanding to IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition: bean navigation and inspections backed by your app's actual context, a Spring debugger, an in-IDE Swagger/HTTP client, Quarkus support, Kotlin-first checks, and Spring-aware MCP tools for AI agents. Free for commercial and non-commercial use.

Settings → Plugins → Marketplace → search "Spring Explyt" → Install

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▶ See it in action: Native Context Mode (30s) · Endpoints tool window

Why Explyt?

A free way to get Spring-focused tooling in IDEA Community. Explyt is not a full IDEA Ultimate replacement — it is strongest when runtime bean accuracy, Kotlin Spring support, HTTP testing, and AI-agent/MCP workflows matter.

Legend: ✅ first-class · ◐ partial / setup-dependent · ❌ not available

Table of Contents

• Features
• Tool Windows
• Installation
• Usage
• Learn More
• Contributing
• Community and Support
• License

Features

Highlights below. For the complete feature list — Spring Data, AOP, Docker/K8s, inlay hints, code generation, SPI beans, Kotlin inspections, and more — see the Features wiki.

🧠 Native context mode — the differentiator

Instead of analyzing source only, Explyt runs a lightweight version of your app and uses a javaagent + declarative bytecode patching to extract real bean metadata at Spring startup. That gives accurate detection of @Conditional, profile, factory, library, and multi-context beans.

→ How Native Context Mode works

🐞 Spring Debugger

A dedicated debug mode shows the Spring Context and Active Transaction in the debugger tree, resolves runtime property values as Code Vision in .properties / .yml, and lets you evaluate bean methods at breakpoints.

🌐 Built-in HTTP client: Swagger UI + .http / .rest

Generate OpenAPI from Spring Web methods and open Swagger UI inside the IDE; execute, inspect, and copy cURL. Or run .http / .rest files via JetBrains HttpClient CLI or httpyac.

→ HTTP client guide

🧭 Endpoints & beans navigation

The Explyt Endpoints tool window lists MVC/WebFlux endpoints, router functions, and message broker listeners (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Jump to any bean via the Beans tab in Search Everywhere (Shift Shift) and explore dependencies with Bean Analyzer.

🤖 Kotlin-first & AI-agent ready

Kotlin-specific Spring inspections catch an internal @Bean whose JVM name is mangled and an object declared as @Component, with quick-fixes. Kotlin coRouter endpoints are supported. For agentic clients, Explyt ships 7 Spring-aware MCP tools on the bundled JetBrains MCP Server (IDEA 2025.2+).

→ MCP tools

Also included: Quarkus CDI/JAX-RS/AOP, Spring Initializr, Docker Compose/K8s property completion, @Profile / @Scheduled inlay hints, code generation, and many inspections & quick fixes.

Tool Windows

• Explyt Spring — load real bean metadata, browse contexts, view aspects, open Bean Analyzer. Entry point for native context mode: Link … From RunConfiguration → Load Beans.
• Explyt Endpoints — Web + message-broker endpoints in one navigable view.

▶ Native Context Mode · Endpoints

Installation

Recommended: IntelliJ IDEA → Settings → Plugins → Marketplace, search "Spring Explyt", click Install. Or install from the web: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/28675-spring-explyt.

Other options: custom repository · manual ZIP from Releases.

First-time setup: open Explyt Spring → Link Explyt Spring Boot Project From RunConfiguration → Load Beans. Full guide: Installation & Setup wiki.

Using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate? Disable its built-in Spring plugin if you see feature conflicts.

Useful links: Changelog · Marketplace description source

Usage

1. Load beans: open Explyt Spring, link your run configuration, click Load Beans.
2. Explore endpoints: open Explyt Endpoints; navigate Web + broker handlers.
3. Test APIs: add Spring Web annotations and click the Run gutter icon → Swagger UI; or run .http / .rest files.
4. Fix issues: Alt+Enter on highlights for Spring-aware quick fixes.
5. Generate: Alt+Ins → Spring Web Method / HttpClient Method / JPA equals/hashCode / Properties↔YAML.

Step-by-step walkthroughs: Usage wiki.

Learn More

In English

• Patching Spring bytecode to enhance application-context recognition — deep dive into the javaagent + declarative bytecode patching.
• Stop playing catch-up with Spring — Explyt Spring for IDEA Community — the approach to accurate context.
• Wiki home — detailed docs that back this concise README.

• Explyt Spring Release: SQL, Docker-Compose, Debugger
• Neural Networks in Spring Development
• Explyt AI Platform and integrated agents
• Tools for the MCP Server plugin
• Quarkus support
• Explyt Spring Debugger
• *.http files support in IDEA Community
• Our take on the HTTP client for IntelliJ IDEA

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! New here? Clone, run ./gradlew :spring-bootstrap:runIde for a sandbox IDE, and grab a good first issue. The Contributing Guide has a 5-minute quickstart, a module map, and how to run a single test class.

Community and Support

• 🐛 Issues / feature requests: GitHub Issues
• 🗨️ Discussions: GitHub Discussions — Q&A, ideas, show & tell
• 💬 Telegram: English · RU channel / chat
• 📚 Docs: explyt.ai/docs · Wiki

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License

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Free to use, modify, and distribute under the terms of that license.

Made with ❤️ by the Explyt Team.