Archive for March 19th, 2009

Spring Webflow Support in IntelliJ IDEA 8

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

IntelliJ IDEA 8 support for Spring Webflow includes:

  • Smart code completion, with all expression attributes
  • Syntax and error highlighting
  • Code generation
  • Rename refactoring
  • Usage search
  • Graphical flow designer
  • and more.

Quick Code Cleanup

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

With IntelliJ IDEA you can quickly clean up your legacy code. If a problem occurs multiple times in a file, you do not need to manually apply a quick-fix every time — use the Fix all intention to repair them all at once.

More Flexible Toolwindow Layout in IntelliJ IDEA 8

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

A little-known new feature of IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 is that it allows you to have two docked toolwindows visible on each side of the screen. So you can, for example, view your changes and your TODO list at the same time at the bottom of IntelliJ IDEA window.
In order to configure this, you need to use drag & drop — for example, to view the TODO list in the right part of the bottom area, you should drop its button to the bottom right corner of the screen.
I have recorded a short screencast showing how this can be done: