Making a product out of your project is usually a boring and time-consuming task: just think about all those build scripts, Java launchers, and installers. And it often takes more than a week to generate all these, then obfuscate your jars, and of course then comes maintenance.
The good news is that now you can […]

Starting from release 6.0, IntelliJ IDEA will provide Struts support out-of-the-box. The functionality is added by Struts Assistant plugin that is now bundled to IntelliJ IDEA. So you’ll get it without any additional download and installation. Furthermore, the plugin will be better integrated with IntelliJ IDEA core and will immediately get all J2EE improvements and […]

After IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 release, JetBrains asked what do you need/want from AJAX tool. The discussion first started at Javalobby and then continued at Ajaxian. We thank everyone who participated, since the answers were really interesting and useful.
This time JetBrains starts a new survey together with Ajaxian to get more details about your AJAX […]

On March, 15th JetBrains made presentations on Team Server and IntelliJ IDEA at Google. The live video of these two presentations is now available at GoogleVideo.
Here what Alex Tkachman, JetBrains marketing director who also participated at the presentations, says at his blog:
” First talk is done by Dmitry Jemerov and dedicated to our new […]

“Simple Syntax Highlighting” plugin for generic syntax highlighting was recently developed by one of the IntelliJ IDEA enthusiasts. The plugin uses simple configuration files to add syntax highlighting for such programming languages as Python and, of course, Ruby.
The plugin is free and can be downloaded via IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Manager. You can […]

Yet another acknowledgement of IntelliJ IDEA leadership in providing the most intelligent Java IDE - this time from Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of Java Developer’s Journal. He states that “…this IDE outsmarts me big time… JetBrains folks did an amazing job”. To read the full story, visit Yakov Fain’s blog.
He also adds that “…If […]

SQL Query plugin is one of the top-ten downloaded IntelliJ IDEA plugins. It allows executing SQL statements through a JDBC connection right from IntelliJ IDEA. It provides you with a syntax highlighting, allows you to work with multiple open queries, save and load queries, and a lot more.

The plugin also helps you to browse for […]

During the last three months JetBrains created a series of Flash demos. Two of them are “presentation demos” showing the main functionality of IntelliJ IDEA: IntelliJ IDEA Overview and Web and Enterprise Development with IntelliJ IDEA.
Other demos are “tutorials” that demostrate and explain how to use certain IntelliJ IDEA features: i18n support, Creating AJAX […]

Even experienced users do not use the full functionality of their products. Sometimes they do not need it, but more often they simply don’t know about it. Of course there are lots of resources that can help you study the product (tips&tricks, demos, tutorials, etc.) But imagine that the IDE itself can tell you about […]

I’m happy to announce that I’m going to give a presentation on our new product, JetBrains “Team Server”, at JavaOne 2006 in San Francisco. I’ll describe the major feature areas of Team Server and show how it solves many of the problems of other team development tools.

The presentation, TS-5033, is currently scheduled for Tuesday, May […]