Intellij IDEA 8 available
I have been using the milestone for quite a while, and I believe there are huge improvements over the earlier versions.
Highlights in the 8.0 release are..
Languages & Frameworks
- SQL-92, MySQL, SQLite with coding assistance and Console to run SQL scripts from the IDE
- Template languages: FreeMarker, Velocity
- XPath/XSLT, including XPath expression evaluation
- Groovy/Grails with advanced editing, new refactorings and Gant
- JBoss Seam
- Struts 2
- Spring 2.5
- Spring Webflow
- Spring MVC
- Spring Dynamic Modules
- GWT 1.5
- RESTful WebServices
Features & Improvements
- 7 New Java Refactorings
- Dataflow to This — see where an arbitrary parameter value comes from
- Create new test for class intention and navigation between classes/tests
- UML class diagrams with navigation to the source code and refactorings
- Thread dump analyzer
- Automatic namespace import for HTML/XML/JSP
- JavaScript debugger
- Flex debugger
- Advanced Flex code editor for MXML and ActionScript files, with Flash 10 generics
- Maven: create new module from archetype, Repository Browser, pom.xml validation and editing assistance
- Subversion 1.5 merge tracking support
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Web Beans (JSR-299) draft available
The JSR299 draft is now available for public review, have a look at it (and leave feedback)
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=299
Your comments are welcomed, send them to jsr-299-comments@jcp.org