Maia EAP is finally here

May 26th, 2009 by yole

We’ve been blogging about the cool new features implemented in the EAP builds of Maia (IntelliJ IDEA 9) for a while, and now at last you can download and try the new build for yourself.

The new features available in the new build include:

Backgroundable file indexing, limited navigation / editing / VCS functionality during such process.
JEE 6 EA support, currently:
- JPA 2.0 (JSR-317)
- EJB 3.1 (JSR-318)
- JSF 2.0 (JSR-314)
- WebBeans (JSR-299)
- Bean Validation (JSR-303)
PHP support
Tapestry support
OSGI support
JavaScript debugger via Firefox plugin
GWT 1.6 support (see IDEADEV-34713 for details)
Task context management
Spell checker
Grails Project View
SmartType completion after ‘new’ in Groovy
Closure and generic parameters foldings
Easy class exclusion from completion & auto-import
Highlighting of globally unused symbols

We’re eagerly waiting for your feedback on the new build. Feel free to let us know what you think on the forums, and post bugs and feature requests to our issue tracker.

And may you always develop with pleasure!

Tags: eap, maia

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8 Responses to “Maia EAP is finally here”

Craig Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Tapestry support!?! Downloading the Maia EAP right now!
Piero Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Tapestry module sounds really great, will test it asap!
But I am a bit disappointed that there is no Mercurial support
yole Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Piero,

Have you tried the hg4idea plugin from http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=3370 ? As far as we know, the plugin is good enough and it doesn’t make sense for us to reimplement its functionality.
Serge Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 8:13 am
No python It’s a pity.
Geekycoder Says:
May 28th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
thank for the hard work !
Hoping to see android plug-in works though…
ALB Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
What I don’t see but I was hoping for was an end to sudden, inexplicable pauses in operations. Developers with more than a dozen tabs open report this problem fairly regularly and I encounter it at least once a day.

Was anything done about these?

Thanks!
Pop Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Actually Intellij IDEA 8 already have support for Python and is good. I don’t understand the guy that said still not support for Python in IDEA maybe you are not using a recent release of IDEA.

By the way I think it was better to make officially the support of Wicket than Tapestry. Nobody use Tapestry anymore, It is Wicket the one that It is hot this days.
Andr00 Says:
July 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Yole,
The hg4idea plugin implements a relatively rudimentary level of hg support, compared to VCS plugins implemented by JetBrains. There is no pull or push without update, no checkout from version control, no init, and on my MacOSX machines, Changes->Repository and Changes->Incoming panels have never displayed anything.

The author has expressed disinterest in implementing functionality beyond what he personally requires, which is perfectly understandable for an open source type project.

I had hoped that JetBrains would be able to fill in a few of these gaps with their expertise at VCS plugin implementation. For now, I absolutely must switch out of the IDE and open a console in order to manage Mercurial projects.