IntelliJ IDEA is an intelligent Java IDE intensely focused on developer productivity that provides a robust combination of enhanced development tools. Its functionality is continuously extended by the users and third parties. Check out our Companion products or categorized list of more than 300 plugins at the Plugin repository.
What's New
- Java EE & Web Development
- General improvement of Java EE and Web development including support for EJB 3.0 and several new frameworks such as Struts and GWT. Web development features supporting JavaScript, AJAX, HTML/CSS, XML, JSP, and JSF are also significantly enhanced. Plus now IntelliJ IDEA integrates with more application servers for easier deployment and debugging of web applications. read more »
- Enhanced Swing GUI Designer
- Enhanced and extended Swing GUI designer that supports different layout managers, provides many new usability features, and allows for fast and intelligent import of existing user interfaces, either hand coded or created in other UI designers.
We also recommend you viewing the online demo. read more » - Code Coverage Support
- Integrated measurement of the code coverage for your unit tests, or tests written as simple applications with the
main()method. Together with JUnit 4 integration, this gives you a powerful testing environment.
read more » - Numerous Productivity & Editing Features
- Among other improvements there are new code inspections for Java and Java EE, several new refactorings and intention actions (including dedicated JS IntentionPowerpack). The long-awaited searchable Settings dialog and project-wide error highlighting are now also available. read more »
- Team Work Facilitation
- Integration with TeamCity - a new IDE independent JetBrains product that is targeted towards both software developers and their managers, helping them to solve problems that typically bog down development teams. IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 also includes a new team collaboration tool that lets developers exchange text messages, exceptions, code pointers, and code changes without leaving the IDE. read more »
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