When having multiple projects, it may happen that a bean with the same name is present in more than one module. Nevertheless, I think that when writing an application context inside a particular project, the autocompletion popup for references should only list values from the same module/config set. Let me explain more clearly what I mean: in our context we have a number of Spring applications (currently 4) all configured as separate idea modules in the same project. 2 of them are web applications, 2 of them are standalone application: every module is configured as a config set, in that all the configuration files included in the module for that application are included in a corresponding set. Anyway, when working on a file from a particular config set, all the names from the other ones pop up when autocompleting and navigating from one bean to the other: this makes the navigation feature utterly useless, and creation of new interesting features such as "rename bean" impossible.