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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IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1
Jetbrains announced a milestone release for my favorite IDE a couple of days ago, and the feature list is quite impressing. I have been running the milestone for a couple of days and so far it’s running great. The SEAM support is a winner for me, as the Spring 2.5 support (although it worked fine in 7.0.4 as well)
- JBoss Seam Integration
- Javascript/Flex Debugger
- Spring 2.5
- FreeMarker, Velocity, GWT 1.5
- Great support for REST WebServices
- Struts 2
- Multi-dialect SQL Console
- Reworked project configuration
- New automated refactorings
- Improved coding assistance
- Numerous new code inspections
- Countless other new features and improvements
And planned features for the full version
- Team Foundation Server integration
- New Java refactorings from former Refactor-J
- Improved Groovy support, with Grails 1.0.3 and new refactorings
- Improved Ruby support, with Ruby debugger
- Scala support
- Python support
- Flexible settings storage with IntelliJ IDEA Server
Check out the fresh release at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion?ij8m1an
IntelliJ & Spaces, a fix (kind off)
This isn’t exactly new, but some java-apps seem to have problems with Spaces in Leopard, i.e. not changing to the correct spaces when switching program.
I found a pretty easy solution, simply open the help window and put it behind the main IDEA window, spaces works fine (although this is kind of hacky).