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Intellij IDEA 8 available

conny.lundgren — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:22:37 +0000

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

Download a 30day trial, or purchase a license here

IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1

conny.lundgren — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:26:12 +0000

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)

conny.lundgren — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:49:19 +0000

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).