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IDEA

Homepage

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Latest release

12.1.2 (24/04/2013)

Developed by

IntelliJ

Licenses

Apache 2.0

Overall rating

9.4
Usability
9.5
Simplicity
8.5
Documentation
8.4
Community
8.5

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Description

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is the open source version of IntelliJ IDEA, a premier IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages.

  • Intelligent code editorunderstanding your code, with refactorings, code inspections, intention actions, easy navigation and full Java 7 support.
  • JUnit and TestNG integration and a convenient test runner UI.
  • Maven, Gradle and Ant-based project setup and building.
  • Comprehensive Groovy programming language support plus plugins for Scala and Clojure.
  • Google Android development including latest SDK support.
  • Unified UI and experience for most popular version control systems:Subversion, Git/GitHub, Mercurial and CVS. Visual merge, diff and changelists.
  • Powerful XML editor with XML-Java interoperability.
  • The Swing UI designer for developing Java desktop applications.
  • Integrates with JetBrains TeamCity for continuous integration and pre-tested commit support.
  • YouTrack, JIRA, GitHub and other trackers integration for task management and IDE context control.

Latest blogs entries

We’ve just rolled out another update for IntelliJ IDEA 12. Version 12.1.3 contains a number of bug fixes and usability improvements in many areas and features of the IDE. For a complete list of changes see the Release Notes page. New version is available for download from the product web site or you can install a patch using “Check for updates” function inside the IDE. IDE’s are no doubt important...
There is new EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 available for download. The complete list of changes can be found in Release Notes. We welcome your feedback on IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.3 EAP at our discussion forum and with bug reports in the issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!
We are excited to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 is available for download. This is the second update for IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 with a new bunch of enhancements and bugfixes. The full list of changes in the update can be found in Release Notes. If you are already running IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 right now, call Check for Updates… action and the IDE will download the update automatically. Develop with ...
As we mentioned before the latest release of IntelliJ IDEA comes with better management for line separators. The information about the line separators type used in the currently opened file is available now in the status bar. Not a big surprise that it is possible to change the type of line endings for the current file via this control. You can also perform a bulk change. Just select a target f...
Two bits of exciting news for IntelliJ IDEA’s users today. The first one is that the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.2 is available for early preview. The new build brings many enhancements and bugfixes. The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes. And the second exciting news is that you can get 50% OFF if you buy IntelliJ IDEA until the end of Earth Day Celebration. Hurry up! ...
If you haven’t updated to the newest IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 yet, there is one more good reason to do it right now. We are happy to announce IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.1, the new update with more enhancements. The new version is available for download on the official website. The automatic update from the IDE is now working again for Mac OS X and all other platforms! Find the full list of changes in the upda...
Good news for all who use Gradle in their projects. The newest update of IntelliJ IDEA brings new features and enhancements for the Gradle integration. Now IntelliJ IDEA provides you additional configuration settings: Use gradle wrapper — The IDE automatically detects if the linked gradle project is wrapper-aware and uses it for refreshing the project and running tasks; Use auto-import — Every p...
Each year we celebrate Spring by rolling out a fresh update for the latest big release, with bugfixes and usability enhancements. This spring is no exception, so today we are excited to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 is finally out and available for download. As you remember, IntelliJ IDEA 12 brought major improvements such as support for Java 8, Play 2, Android UI designer, a new compiler with ...
The countdown for the upcoming release has officially begun. Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 129.111, the second release candidate with more bugfixes and usability enhancements. The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes. Please feel free to share your feedback on the discussion forum and report bugs directly to our issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!
This is the third part of the JavaFX 2 serie about the new features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. Today we would like to show how you can prepare your application deployment bundles. Since the last two posts we have updated the project wizard so when you create a project it comes with an already configured artifact. If you accept to create a project and open File → Project Structure → Artifacts, ...
We are happy to announce that the first release candidate for IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 is out and available for download. The release candidate build as always comes with a new bunch of bugfixes and enhancements you have been waiting for. Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. There is only one week left before the long-waited release, so please don’t hesitate to submit your feedback on the di...
Today we would like to answer the most frequent questions about file encodings in the IDE and show you a few tricks, which may help you to avoid potential pitfalls. What is the problem with file encodings? To be able to display the text correctly, IntelliJ IDEA needs to know which file encoding to use. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to tell the file encoding without additional informati...
This is the second part of the serie about Java FX 2 support in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. Today we would show some features dedicated to help you to skin your JavaFX application with CSS. We would use the same sample application we were using in the previous post. As you know JavaFX allows to configure stylesheets for nodes in your .fxml. IntelliJ IDEA helps to complete existing .css files:...
As you know, there’s only two weeks left before the long-awaited big update to IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. That’s why today we are announcing IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 EAP 129.17, one more public preview for the upcoming release, with more bugfixes and enhancements. As usual, the full list of changes is available in Release Notes. Thanks to everyone for sharing your feedback on the new features in our discussion...
In the latest IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 EAP we announced the complete support for Adobe Gaming SDK, i.e. Adobe AIR SDK bundled together with Away3D, Starling and Feathers frameworks. For those who are interested in developing games using IntelliJ IDEA we have prepared a step-by-step tutorial with instructions on how to set up, build and run sample applications included in the SDK. Please feel free to sh...
Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 EAP 128.101, one more preview build for the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. As always the new build comes with a bunch of new features and bugfixes. The major features in the build include: New intentions for Groovy Support for Jetty 9 Support for Adobe Gaming SDK Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. Please feel free to share your feed...
As you might remember a few months ago we have shared the tutorial how to write a plugin with custom language support for IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ Platform. Today we would like to continue talking about plugin development with the new tutorial, which will teach you how to write and run automated tests for your plugin. The sample code for this tutorial can be found on GitHub. Please feel free to...
We are excited to let you know that JetBrains is joining the 33rd Degree Conference held in Warsaw, Poland March 13-15. Over three days 1,200 attendees will experience 91 sessions from 57 speakers at this star-studded event. Come by our booth and learn more about Project Kotlin and the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. We look forward to meeting you in person, answering your questions and sh...
One month left before IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 update, and we are hurry up with new features and enhancements. The next early preview build for the upcoming update has been released and is available for download. The major changes in the build include: Support for microdata attributes in HTML5 JSLint for HTML with JavaScript and CSS Gradle integration improvements Starling Framework support for Flash ...
Over the last year we have been asked to add support for JavaFX 2 quite frequently. Today we are pleased to announce the first preview of the JavaFX 2 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. Having Java 7 installed you may create a new demo project based on JavaFX Application template: On clicking finish you’ll get a template application ready to run: There is a .fxml file describing sample layout, contr...
Great news for every one who is waiting for IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 EAP 126.330, the next preview build for the upcoming release. The new build brings a new features and bugfixes. Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. Don’t forget to reports bugs in our issue tracker and share your feedback on the discussion forum. Develop with Pleasure!
Since IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 is already available for the early preview, we can tell you now about the new features. If you ever referenced existing beans across multiple Spring configurations, you will find the new quick-fixes very useful. Now you can change dependencies between corresponding contexts in Spring facet without leaving the editor. Let’s say we have two Spring XML configuration files: sp...
The latest release of IntelliJ IDEA brings many exciting features for Spring MVC support. In this post we would like to highlight some of them, which add even more intelligence for @RequestMapping and @PathVariable usages in your project. Enhanced code completion in @RequestMapping: Navigation, checking for unresolved variables and completion for variable names: Highlighting variable...
We are happy to announce, that IntelliJ IDEA 12.0.4, the forth update for IntelliJ IDEA 12 has been finally released and available for download. Please find the full list of bugfixes and enhancements in Release Notes. Feel free to share your feedback on the discussion forum and report bugs in our issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!
We have great news for those who are waiting for the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. We are happy to announce that Early Access Program for IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 has officially started and available for your evaluation. You are welcome to download IntelliJ IDEA 12.1 EAP 126.232 edition of your choice and try the new features. Among numerous bug fixes, the new release brings: Basic code ass...

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marcin.cylke

Fast, reliable - great tool with lots of features and support for myriads of frameworks. 

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piotr.jagielski

Best Java IDE. Open source version lacks some frameworks support (Grails!) but still better then Eclipse/Netbeans.

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rlovtangen

Really good refactoring support. Super-fast find in files. Very framework aware (e.g. code completion from model in GSPs)

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dasanderl.ausminga

just a lot better than eclipse.

dont get me wrong, eclipse is FREE and its good, but intellij is just better in nearly all functionalities:

better refactoring, covers views and xml files, generate java stuff out of your view 

better import of existing projects from eg maven

all frameworks are detected and configured automatically

no eclipse plugin hell

easy and proper deployment of artifacts to runtime, including hotswap

better startuptime and responsivness

autocompletion for view xml etc out of the box

and MUCH MORE

YOU GUYS ROCK

 

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