Resilience4j Navigator

Summary

An IntelliJ IDEA plugin that enables direct navigation between Resilience4j annotations and their corresponding implementation methods.

This tool reduces friction for developers working with Resilience4j in Spring-based applications, making it easier to trace resilience mechanisms across annotation usage and business logic.

Goals

• Provide seamless navigation between annotations and their implementations.
• Reduce wasted time on manual searches.
• Support teams working with Resilience4j at scale.

Non-Goals

• Not a runtime monitoring or management tool.
• Not designed to replace observability dashboards.
• Not a general-purpose navigation plugin for all Java annotations.

Motivation

When using Resilience4j annotations, developers often ask:

• “Where is this fallback method defined?”
• “Is this method actually used or safe to delete?”
• “Which annotations reference this method?”

This plugin exists to answer those questions directly,
making the hidden connections between annotations and implementations explicit,
and enabling developers to work with resilience patterns more confidently.

Development Status

This plugin is still under active development and has not yet been officially released.

Try It Out

If you’d like to experiment with it early, you can build and install the plugin manually:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/joon6093/resilience4j-navigator.git
   cd resilience4j-navigator
   

2. Build the plugin

   ./gradlew buildPlugin
   

   After the build completes, you’ll find the packaged ZIP file in:

   build/distributions/resilience4j-navigator-0.1.0.zip
   

3. Install into IntelliJ IDEA

   • Open IntelliJ IDEA
   • Go to Settings → Plugins → ⚙ → Install Plugin from Disk
   • Select the ZIP file
   • Restart IntelliJ