JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

I believe you’ll like this announcement — IntelliJ IDEA has just gone open-source! Check out the press release as well as the new jetbrains.org community site for the details. We all will soon get a lot of new friends and colleagues in our IntelliJ IDEA community!

Starting with the upcoming version 9.0, IntelliJ IDEA will be offered in two editions: Community Edition and Ultimate Edition. The Community Edition focuses on Java SE technologies, Groovy and Scala development. It’s free of charge and open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. The Ultimate edition with full Java EE technology stack remains our standard commercial offering. See the feature comparison matrix for the differences.

Briefly, in the free Community Edition you’ll get all the Java code support — various refactorings and code inspections, coding assistance; debugging, TestNG and JUnit testing; CVS, Subversion and Git support; Ant and Maven build integration; and Groovy and Scala support (through a separate plugin). To learn more and download the Public Preview of IntelliJ IDEA 9 Community Edition, please visit the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition site.

The IntelliJ platform, the common foundation for all our IDEs (IDEA, RubyMine, WebIDE or MPS), is being open-sourced under the APL 2.0, too.

You’ll find all the relevant information on how to participate and benefit at JetBrains.org. Check out the FAQ if you have additional questions.

Great news, Everyone! We’re very happy to inform you all, that in spirit of a good old tradition (established around three years ago), everyone who buys or upgrades to IntelliJ IDEA 8 after October 1st 2009, is entitled to a FREE copy of IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia), which is scheduled for release in November 2009.

Develop with pleasure!

We wanted to let you know about Codegeist IV, the fourth annual plugin competition from our friends at Atlassian. Atlassian are giving away over $50,000 in prizes for the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin or integration for any of their products. There are six prizes, each worth $5,000 in cash, and thousands more in software, conference tickets, and even a new MacBook!

In addition to a first- and second-place Best Plugin prizes, there are four specific categories for different types of plugins. There’s a category for Confluence Themes and CSS, for JIRA OpenSocial Gadgets, for the best use of Javascript, and for the best multiple-product integration. There’s something here for everyone, including several opportunities that go beyond traditional Java development.

Just a reminder: any plugin written or released since Codegeist III (May 9th, 2008), is eligible for Codegeist IV.

This year Atlassian will be announcing the winners live on October 21st at AtlasCamp, their premiere, developers-only conference in Half Moon Bay, California. You need not be present to win, but it sure will be more fun!

Atlassian has been working hard on their plugin development framework in preparation for Codegeist IV. They’re encouraging every developer, expert or newbie, to check out the new SDK, use it for your new plugins and give them feedback. It should provide a much improved method of building and testing Atlassian plugins.

You can use the Atlassian Developer Forums to communicate with your peers, find team-members, ask questions, and publicize your awesome new plugin. The Atlassian Developer Community is strong, and Codegeist is a wonderful chance to collaborate with other developers.

Check out the official rules and get your submissions in by October 9th!

Yesterday, ZeroTurnaround announced their recently upgraded JRebel plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. We liked what we saw, and thought you would too.

JRebel (formerly JavaRebel) is a small application that allows you to see changes you make to your code without redeploying it by mapping your project workspace directly to a running application. So, when you make a change to any class or resource in your IDE the change is immediately reflected in the application, skipping build and redeploy phases.

They’ve posted a survey (700+ respondents) that says the redeploy & restart phase wastes 2-8 weeks of your development time annually, depending on the container you use.

The plugin itself lets you configure JRebel for projects and containers directly within IntelliJ IDEA, using a neat GUI, instead of going to the command line. Basically, if you’re interested in JRebel, then it’s easier than ever to work with it directly from IntelliJ IDEA.

For more information, check out the Plugin Home Page and its Installation Guide.

If you’re interested in writing your own plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, check out our repository of 550+ extensions, and information on how you can get started, here: http://plugins.intellij.net/

As most of you would know, IntelliJ IDEA includes intelligent Groovy support. We have created two live demos that demonstrate how you can effectively use IntelliJ IDEA to build your Groovy applications: Transparent Groovy Assistance and Groovy Specific Support.

It’s been almost a month since JavaOne, and we’re finally catching up with our raffle winner announcements. This year we departed from our traditional license raffle and instead suggested that attendees fill out a card with positive or negative feedback about IntelliJ IDEA (or both).
Thanks to everyone who took part in this small survey! While we get a lot of inspiration from your positive feedback, the negative kind shows us where there’s most work still to be done.
And here are the winners, each of whom gets a free personal IntelliJ IDEA License:

• Hiroshi Koizumi
• John Gonzalez
• Sebastian Hennebrueder
• Bob Sturm
• Karthik Bala

Your licenses should be waiting for you in your e-mail inbox!

We’re happy to announce the first Milestone release of upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 9, nicknamed Maia.
This release delivers a fresh preview of features and improvements we’ve implemented so far for IntelliJ IDEA 9:

• Java EE 6
• Tapestry
• OSGi
• Android
• Google App Engine
• PHP
• And more

You’re welcome to download IntelliJ IDEA 9M1, traditionally available for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix systems.

IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.3 update is available. Download the fresh build that includes:

• SVN 1.6 integration
• TFS checkin policies support
• Keymap for NetBeans users
• More robust indexes

For more information about fixes and improvements see Release Notes.

We have just released a fresh IntellIJ IDEA update — 8.1.2

You’re welcome to get it from the official download page.

For the complete list of what has been added and fixed, see release notes.

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